William Saroyan Quotes

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

Writers always think their greatest work is just ahead of them.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

To be honest, I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface of where I want to be. If someone asked me for an autograph, I'd be like, 'Me? I haven't done anything yet !' I have much more to offer the world.

I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.

Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.