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
dirty people comedian
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.
health doctors matter
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
good-times time-of-your-life ugliness
In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
heart sorrow world
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
stories events form
The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.
swimming hunting fishing
Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
pride men knowing
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.
writing littles way
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
silence streets
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
moving men years
What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?
vanity facts recognition
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
daughter son technology
I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.
writing careers shortcuts
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
style genius kind
Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.