William Saroyan Quotes

Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ....

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the...

Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all...

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armeni...

But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me t...

Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-...

Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.

What we want to do is keep from hindering. If it's impossible to help, it's always possible to hinde...

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will ma...

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. ...

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented wi...

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, ...

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself....

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking...

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the...

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to m...

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do u...

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius onl...

All things lie dark in possibility.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.