Irwin Shaw Quotes
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Shaw, Irwin. "The Art of Fiction No. 4." Interview by John Phillips and George Plimpton. The Paris Review, no. 4, Winter 1953.
Irwin Shaw was an 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 (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, which was made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely.
