| Author Quoted | William Saroyan |
| Title Quoted | Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapese and Other Stories |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1939/12/14 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1934 |
| Quotation | Whatever I said about Inhale and Exhale doesn't apply to the Daring Young Man. Very good. Much better than "I. and E." Fewer corny parts. Good prefaces. Good stuff about writing. Still haven't hit an individualstory as good as the one about "Two days wasted in K.C." except Daring Y.M. itself.Very good business about the teletype machine (story-12345678) and the music in it. Saroyan very close to everybody. Closer than any other writer. I remember hearing a girl usher, in the theater where Time of Your Life was playing, saying to someone: "Listen, William Saroyan writes very good." and I never in my life heard an usher say anything like that. |
| Quotation Source | Run to the mountain: The Story of a Vocation. The journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 1, 1939-1941.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1995, p. 102-03 |
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