William Saroyan Quotes on Purpose
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.
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The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.
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How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?
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A writer wants what he has to say to be heard again and again. He wants it to be heard after he is dead.
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My work is writing, but my real work is being.