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Even after you've won fame an...

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 all over again.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

How do you write? You write, ...

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

Genius is play, and man's cap...

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

No city invites the heart to ...

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

There is little pride in writ...

There 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 150 quotes

In the most commonplace, tire...

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

Encourage virtue in whatever ...

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

The best that can be said for...

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

I'm not the kind of guy to kn...

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

San Francisco itself is art, ...

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

I don't think my writing is s...

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

Whoever the kid had been, who...

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

Christmas is sights, especial...

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

I am enormously wise and abys...

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

Two years ago your father die...

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

To Armenians, half Armenians,...

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

William Saroyan 150 quotes

Sometimes the most intelligen...

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

I have managed to conceal my ...

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

We are not forced into unplea...

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

If you’re alive, you can’t be...

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

William Saroyan 150 quotes

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