5 William Saroyan Quotes on Career

William Saroyan quotes on career

48. A man must pretend not to be a writer.

102. Now, having a play on the same bill with a play by the one and only, the good and great, the impish and noble, the man and superman, George Bernard Shaw, is for me an honor, and I think a most fitting thing.

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

162. Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

174. Always, Bill talked about being and becoming a writer, of all the stories and ideas inside him that had to come out. We knew he had been sending out stories all along and collecting rejection slips but the day in 1934 when Joe Danysh and I arrived at the front door of the gallery and found the envelope addressed to us both, we knew it had really begun. Inside were two one dollar bills, two street car transfers and a card which read 'One for the, money / one for the show / one For Virginia / and one for Joe.' Signed William Shakespeare.