“I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me I'm sentimental, you sons of bitches. You are contemptible, your dishonesty is contemptible, your careful plodding with words, to keep them safely captured inside your silly little theories are contemptible, but I don't hate you, because each… — 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
