There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?
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.
All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.
The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
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.
Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.
Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons.
Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.
I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.
All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.
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