Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than...
Irwin Shaw Life
Irwin Shaw Novel
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. Irwin Shaw
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life. Irwin Shaw
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. Irwin Shaw
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. Irwin Shaw
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices. Irwin Shaw
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young. Irwin Shaw
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself. Irwin Shaw
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. Irwin Shaw
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
A writer has to live with a sense of honor. Irwin Shaw
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. Irwin Shaw
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
