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Tag Archives: William Saroyan
Books Can Be Dangerous
William Styron wrote: “A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” Have you ever thought how books, whether good or bad, whether we like them or not, change our lives? We … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artist, author, book, books, characters, creative, creative writing, diary, digital, doubt, dreams, emotion, English, faith, feelings, fiction, happy, home, ideas, imagination, inspiration, language, library, life, literature, love, memories, novel, poetry, story, thoughts, William Saroyan, woman, words, work, write, writer, writing
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Your Writing Can Be As Good As
Novels or stories belong to two categories. Either driven by character or driven by plot or story line. Of the novels based on character, who can forget Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, or Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, or The Brothers Karamazov, or Charles … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, book, books, character, Charles Dickens, creative writing, daughter, death, desire, dream, dreams, e-book, emotions, England, English, Ernest Hemingway, feelings, food, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, hope, Leo Tolstoy, library, life, literature, love, novel, people, plot, read, reading, story, style, touch, William Saroyan, words, work, writer, writing
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, blog, book, Canada, daughter, dream, England, feelings, fiction, home, hope, house, internet, joy, kids, library, life, love, magic, memory, new year, news, novel, opera, Paris, peace, people, poetry, Prix Goncourt, reading, religion, rendezvous, Robert Fisk, Simone De Beauvoir, Sydney, United States, William Saroyan, writer, writing
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Rendezvous With William Saroyan
“Well for God’s sake, what’s that lousy Armenian son of a bitch doing here?” stated Ernest Hemingway. The more I tried to hush him, the worse it got. Finally Saroyan’s companion… began to come back at Ernest. I am not … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Award, Amazon, Amazon UK, Anjar, Armenian, author, bestseller, book, books, change, drama, e-book, English, Ernest Hemingway, high school, humans, innovation, journalist, Lebanon, library, life, Mark twain, news, Nobel prize, notebook, novel, Paris, play, publisher, Pulitzer Prize, read, reader, short story, story, theme, William Saroyan, writer, writing, young
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They Usually Have A Beginning That Never Stops Beginning
Steven Spielberg once said: “People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.” By definition a story is: An oral or written … Continue reading
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Tagged action, Anton Chekhov, beginning, book, books, cruelty, dark, dictionary, dream, emotion, emotions, event, events, kindness, kiss, Leo Tolstoy, life, love, Mark twain, Maya Angelou, novel, people, plot, publisher, Ray Bradbury, read, relationships, rich, romance, soul, Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, story, successful, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, words, writer, writing
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I Wish You All A Happy Bleeding
My son came to my room the other day while I was reading and said, “I am happy with the way I organized my library this time. I sorted my books out and arranged the shittiest all on one shelf … Continue reading
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Honestly!
The Gazette Montreal, in one of the early April issues, had published the following quote by Angela Schwindt as its ‘Quote of the day’: While we try to teach our children all about life our children teach us what life … Continue reading
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