274 Quotes by William Saroyan

I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inside all and careless of all.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can’t? The question is, who can get an answer?

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

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

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn’t know any better.

At the corner she looked suddenly far away and saw the street go straight out to the sky. She looked up to the sky and saw it go everywhere, and my, she thought, how large it is, what a large place it is. What a large world. So many different people, so many different places, close by and far away, people everywhere, places everywhere. What a fine place to be in.

I can’t hate for long. It isn’t worth it.

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.