5 William Saroyan Quotes on Failure

William Saroyan quotes on failure

7. The race was over. I was last, by ten yards. Without the slightest hesitation I protested and challenged the runners to another race, same distance, back. They refused to consider my proposal, which proved, I knew, that they were afraid to race me. I told them they knew very well I could beat them.

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

72. Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

80. I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with.

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