Author Profile
Irwin Shaw
1913 – 1984 • American • Novelist
46
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 46 quotesNo writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.— Irwin Shaw
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.— Irwin Shaw
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.— Irwin Shaw
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.— Irwin Shaw
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.— Irwin Shaw
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.— Irwin Shaw
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.— Irwin Shaw