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
soon-enough trying alive
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
inspiration would-be famous-last-words
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
happiness gratitude cheer
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
care i-care
I care so much about everything that I care about nothing
cancer smoking want
You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
writing thinking sentimental
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
fun one-day afternoon
One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.
men identity awareness
A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
god answers speak
But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
heart adventure cities
If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life......San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day.
giving study armenians
It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.
laughing people upset
I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
inspirational motivational wisdom
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
art roles world
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.