I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
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… — 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
All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me to take… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I… — 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
