Writer Quotes by William Saroyan

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

— William Saroyan

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

— William Saroyan

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

— William Saroyan

“This was such bad writing that it was good.”

— William Saroyan

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

— William Saroyan

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

— William Saroyan

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

— William Saroyan

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

— William Saroyan

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

“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

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

— William Saroyan

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and…

— William Saroyan

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and…

— William Saroyan

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

— William Saroyan

“You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing…

— William Saroyan

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and…

— William Saroyan

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the…

— William Saroyan

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing…

— William Saroyan

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

— William Saroyan

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

“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

“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

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when…

— William Saroyan

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