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    THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITER
    OF THE 20TH CENTURY
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    Joyce and Mann may have been better writers
    but Saroyan was more influential than both.
    Of the many interviews with contemporary writers
    that I have read, the name that comes up again and again
    in the context of formative influences
    is that of Saroyan.
    That’s because, like Whitman before him,
    Saroyan democratized writing.
    After reading him one is intoxicated
    by the simplicity, spontaneity and natural flow of his prose.
    If Saroyan makes an adolescent say
    "If he can do it, I can. There is nothing to it!"
    Joyce and Mann make him think:
    "I will never make it.
    I could never write like that."
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