More from William Saroyan

  1. I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
  2. The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep …
  3. 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…
  4. Through the air on the flying trapeze, his mind hummed. Amusing it was, astoundingly funny. A trapeze to God, or to nothing, a flying trape…
  5. The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
  6. Then swiftly, neatly, with the grace of the young man on the trapeze, he was gone from his body. For an eternal moment he was still all thi…
  7. Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?
  8. If you can't write a decent short story because of the cold, write something else. Write anything. Write a long letter to somebody.

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