5 William Saroyan Quotes on Meaning

William Saroyan quotes on meaning

25. The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

26. 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.

67. I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

120. Jim Dandy waves his stick over and around about the rock in a meaningless-meaningful way.

169. My work is writing, but my real work is being.