274 Quotes by William Saroyan

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

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

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

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

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

What the hell are they all looking for? A way out. A way to the right way out. A way to leave. A way to go. A way to have had it, to have had enough of it, to be done with it. A decent way to give it all over to the giver of it all,

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop