William Saroyan Quotes

“Everything is changed for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the world has always been full of that loneliness.”
― William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.”
― William Saroyan

“That’s how it was in our tribe. A man could be the father of his son’s flesh, but that did not mean that he was also the father of his spirit. The distribution of the various kinds of spirit of our tribe had been from the beginning capricious and vagrant.”
― William Saroyan, My name is Aram, The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

“I have an understanding with a horse.”
― William Saroyan, My name is Aram, The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

“Good morning, sons of my friends, he said. What is the name of your horse?
My Heart, my cousin Mourad said in Armenian.”
― William Saroyan, My name is Aram, The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

“A suspicious man would believe his eyes instead of his heart.”
― William Saroyan, My name is Aram, The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

“My cousin Mourad put his arms around the horse, pressed his nose into the horse’s nose, patted it, and then we went away.”
― William Saroyan, My name is Aram, The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse