Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shawwas a prolific American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions, about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man, about the fate of three siblings after World War II, that was made into a popular miniseries starring...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth27 February 1913
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young
I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written