The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to… - William Saroyan

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The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

William Saroyan

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories · October 17, 1997 Verified in 2 sources · 1 more available Sign up to see the complete provenance

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William Saroyan (31 August 1908 – 18 May 1981) was an Armenian American author, famous for his novel The Human Comedy (1943) and other works dealing with the comedies and tragedies of everyday existence.

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When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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