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

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

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  2. What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. – William Saroyan
  3. Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself – William Saroyan
  5. All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. – William Saroyan
  6. 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
  7. When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die. – William Saroyan
  8. A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. – William Saroyan
  9. You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party – William Saroyan
  10. 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
  11. The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn’t know any better. – William Saroyan
  12. You write a hit play the same way you write a flop – William Saroyan
  13. I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant – William Saroyan
  14. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
  15. Lust makes you weak, passion makes you strong, love makes you brave, and heartache makes you wise. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  16. Knowledge makes you strong,understanding makes you formidable,wisdom makes you powerful,and love makes you invincible. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  17. Who knows why we do it? And when we’ve done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That’s what makes a writer a writer. – Chloe Thurlow
  18. And in the end you will realise that everything you did, you did for you and for the people like you… – Nrane Saroyan
  19. My cup is yellowOr not, though not’sImpossibleIt’s yellow – Aram Saroyan
  20. Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life. – Israelmore Ayivor
  21. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness! – Israelmore Ayivor
  22. It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness! – Israelmore Ayivor
  23. But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy. – Stefan Zweig
  24. But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy. – Stefan Zweig
  25. Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions – Duncan William Gibbons
  26. Live the life you love to live. Because love is all what makes you happy and happiness is all what makes life. – Kritika
  27. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  28. It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it’s process. – Henry James
  29. Knowledge makes you strong,wisdom makes you powerful,and love makes you invincible. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  30. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  31. A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials. – Garry Fitchett
  32. We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer? – Dejan Stojanovic
  33. One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere. – Raymond Chandler
  34. One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere. – Raymond Chandler
  35. A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer. – Uma Nnenna
  36. The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd. – Charles Bukowski
  37. Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  38. I’m a struggling writer, I’m struggling to convince people I’m a writer. – Tom Conrad
  39. Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn’t finding an idea, it’s choosing one – Jo Linsdell
  40. I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It’s entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences. – Caitln R Kiernan

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