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William Saroyan was an American playwright and novelist known for his humorous and satirical style. His works often explored social and human issues from the perspective of Armenian-American individuals.

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Famous William Saroyan Quotes

“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.”

Knows Men Humans Littles Dies Knowing Pride Forgotten Gentle Severe Another Man Unkind

Book:The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories

Source: The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories

“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.”

Way Writing Firsts Littles Wanted Courses Expected Little Things

Book:One day in the afternoon of the world

Source: One day in the afternoon of the world

“Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.”

Littles Self Struggle

Book:I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

“She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.”

Ifs Littles Long Cry Decided Cried Long Ago

Book:Madness in the Family

Source: Madness in the Family

“What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?”

Knows Feels Trying Mean Littles Matter Running Know How Cry Fine Sake Now And Then Overwhelmed

Book:Madness in the Family

Source: Madness in the Family

“I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?”

Want Littles Ideas Bigs Running Running Away Captured Away From Love

Book:Madness in the Family

Source: Madness in the Family

“What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?”

Knows Littles Stupid

Book:Madness in the Family

Source: Madness in the Family

“Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Littles Art I Can Might Care Games Nations Race Player Fans Baseball Series Caring Dimensions Trusted Great Art World Series

Author:William Saroyan

“We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”

Knows Littles Substance Sober Congratulations Sobriety Learning From Failure Addicts In Recovery Wisdom And Experience Inspirational Addiction Recovery Inspirational Recovery Inspirational Wisdom Wisdom Experience Getting Sober

Author:William Saroyan

“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.”

Ifs Men Way Writing Years Littles Art Use Practice Wise Tree Fruit Leafs Walnuts Old English Walnut Trees

Author:William Saroyan

“The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.”

Writing Littles Running Kids Faces Purpose Voice Sun Streets Loneliness Comfort Clouds Accidents Innocence Purpose Of Writing

Author:William Saroyan

About the Author

Born: August 31, 1908
Died: May 18, 1981
Known for: Dramatist
Quotes: 180

Books & Sources

Places Where I've Done TimeRelated source material

I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sureRelated source material

He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan readerRelated source material

Sons come and go, mothers hang in foreverRelated source material

The Time of Your LifeRelated source material

Madness in the FamilyRelated source material

My Name Is AramRelated source material

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other StoriesRelated source material

The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William SaroyanRelated source material

The bicycle rider in Beverly HillsRelated source material

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