The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.

Quote by William Saroyan

Topics: Writing Quotes

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place...

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining...

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining...

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to...

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to...

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they...

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they...

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human...

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human...

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the...

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the...

Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human...

Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human...

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there...

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he...

I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he...

I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain...

I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain...

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you...

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you...

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as...

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as...

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting...

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting...

Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel:...

Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel:...

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of...

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of...