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
understanding misunderstood said
The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
time-of-your-life
Live, for this is the time of your life.
soon-enough trying alive
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
action activity
We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
cycling bikers invention
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
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.
beautiful book fragments
Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.
people
People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
lonely silly america
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
typewriters names white
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.
life men rehearsing
It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
christmas children eye
Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
san-francisco bored bay-area
If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.
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.