William Saroyan
William Saroyan
William Saroyanwas an American dramatist and author. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film adaptation of his novel The Human Comedy...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 August 1908
CityFresno, CA
christmas children eye
Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
lonely silly america
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
action activity
We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
people
People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
beautiful book fragments
Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.
hiding goodness found
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
children kids world
Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.
cycling bikers invention
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
memories lasts next
Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
heart cities san-francisco
No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
writing years ideas
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
time-of-your-life
Live, for this is the time of your life.
giving thieves stealing
If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
writing ill-health despair
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.