William Saroyan
Born: 01-01-1908
William Saroyan was an American author and playwright known for his poignant and optimistic works celebrating the human spirit. Born in 1908 in Fresno, California, Saroyan's Armenian heritage often influenced his writing. He achieved fame with "The Time of Your Life," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, though he declined the award. Saroyan's prolific career includes short stories, novels, and plays, marked by humor and empathy for ordinary people.
Book summaries for books written by William Saroyan
Quotes
I love the silence of the morning, before the world is fully awake and still wonders if it's really seen the sun.
We're all perfect, because of our perfection of being ourselves. We're all different, and we're all the same.
You know, some people have an extra sense. They can't see or hear better than the rest of us, but they have a feeling for things.
Happiness is not a thing to be pursued, it is something you achieve when you give in to what you are.
You can't be sad, or you'll be like everybody else.
There is nothing to be learned from war, and there is no reason to glorify it. War is evil.
The world is alive and nothing is ever the same from day to day, or even from one moment to the next.
Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
There's nothing about me that's special to anybody but you.
The world is young, and it's always growing. It's the youngest thing there is and it's growing up all the time.
The fruit of the Tree of Life is sweet. And sweet is the love that is born of our lives.