Saroyan Quotes

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world. (William Saroyan)
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student. View quote
William Saroyan
I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy. View quote
Jonathan Evison
Now, if Mr. Shaw and Mr. Saroyan are poles apart, no comparison between the two, one great and the other nothing, one a genius and the other a charlatan, let me repeat that if you must know which writer has influenced my writing when influences are real and for all I know enduring, then that writer has been George Bernard Shaw. I shall in my own day influence a young writer or two somewhere or other, and no one need worry about that. Young Shaw, hello out there. View quote
William Saroyan