Famous William Saroyan Quotes

  • I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant – William Saroyan

    I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant– William Saroyan

  • You write a hit play the same way you write a flop – William Saroyan

    You write a hit play the same way you write a flop– William Saroyan

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

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

  • The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn’t know any better. – William Saroyan

    The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn’t know any better.– William Saroyan

  • One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words – William Saroyan

    One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words– William Saroyan

  • You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party – William Saroyan

    You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party– William Saroyan

  • I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn’t happiness. – William Saroyan

    I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn’t happiness.– William Saroyan

  • A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. – William Saroyan

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

  • When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die. – William Saroyan

    When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.– William Saroyan

  • When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom – William Saroyan

    When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom– William Saroyan