274 Quotes by William Saroyan

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.

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

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.

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.