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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself. — Robert Frost

Some general advice about writing:
WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS. — Brian K. Vaughan

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now. — Jonathan Carroll

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about. — Julia Cameron

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. — Stephen Jay Gould

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing. — Pico Iyer

A piece of writing is never good," he told me. "There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before. — Joel Dicker

The more I write, the less I understand why. — Marty Rubin

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself. — Jess Walter

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music. — Ben Folds

World creation should be an effort of great and covetous love. — Micah R. Sisk

Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying. — Chris Stapleton

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it. — Christopher McQuarrie

I write for the love of writing, and to tell a story, nothing more, nothing less. — Ron Parham

I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing. — Orhan Pamuk

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. — Henry Edward Manning

A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist. — Kevin Focke

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so. — Samuel Beckett

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison

Don't wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards. — A.D. Posey

I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here. — Kate Klise

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing. — William Gibson

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. — David Ives

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work. — Chang-rae Lee

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do. — Lawrence Block

I tried to appear more normal than I was, so that those around me wouldn't think I was less normal than I was, and that suited them just fine. — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it? — Paula Hawkins

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. — M. John Harrison

I want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper. — Jonathan Culver

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up — Ben Parr

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math. — Mick Barr

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. — Yann Tiersen

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely. — Amy Tan

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. — Coventry Patmore

The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is. — Edwidge Danticat

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space. — Jonathan Lethem

Give all that you can.
No more. No less.
Every. Single. Day. — Christy Hall

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process. — Giovanni Ribisi

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place. — Charles De Lint

Film makes me feel less alone in the world. — A.D. Posey

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. — Marilynne Robinson

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. — Mabel Seeley

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less! — Tracy Chevalier

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it. — Gabrielle Roy

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. — Stephen King

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides. — Walter Kirn