“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is,… — William Saroyan Copy Share
“This is a hell of a night. I don't want to leave it just to go to sleep.” — William Saroyan Copy Share
Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on. — William Saroyan Copy Share
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine,… — William Saroyan Copy Share
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't… — William Saroyan Copy Share
I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take… — William Saroyan Copy Share
Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two… — William Saroyan Copy Share
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live,… — William Saroyan Copy Share
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or… — William Saroyan Copy Share
San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. — William Saroyan Copy Share
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career… — William Saroyan Copy Share
“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose history is ended, whose… — WILLIAM SAROYAN Copy Share
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. — William Saroyan Copy Share
“This sense of being out of time has driven thousands of people from their homes into moving-picture theaters where new universes appear before them,… — William Saroyan Copy Share
