Quotes by : William Saroyan

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

But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me....

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

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

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

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken....

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself.....

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will....

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.