01UndatedYou may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.William Saroyan / quote ↗
02UndatedBut try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.William Saroyan / quote ↗
04UndatedThe greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.William Saroyan / quote ↗
05UndatedEverybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.William Saroyan / quote ↗
07UndatedThe purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.William Saroyan / quote ↗
08UndatedThis is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.William Saroyan / quote ↗
11UndatedWhen Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was homWilliam Saroyan / quote ↗
13UndatedA poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.William Saroyan / quote ↗
14UndatedI do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.William Saroyan / quote ↗
15UndatedAlthough I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.William Saroyan / quote ↗
16UndatedYou know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist PartyWilliam Saroyan / quote ↗
17UndatedHow do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.William Saroyan / quote ↗
18UndatedWhatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do useful things whenever it is possible or necessary to do them, we shall soon be totally departed from the human scene, and forgotten, or remembered only for having disappeared. Armenians are too vital to be permitted to throw themselves away in neutrality, comfort, well-being, satisfaction, and so on and so forth.William Saroyan / quote ↗
19UndatedOne picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand wordsWilliam Saroyan / quote ↗
20UndatedThe idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.William Saroyan / quote ↗
21UndatedWhat a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.William Saroyan / quote ↗
22UndatedThe writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.William Saroyan / quote ↗
23UndatedThere is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.William Saroyan / quote ↗
24UndatedThe purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?William Saroyan / quote ↗
