274 Quotes by William Saroyan

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

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.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

But the world was my home and I was glad to be in it.

I looked, I saw, I understood, I felt, "That's that, where do we go from here?

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.