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    The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

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    The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.

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    The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

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    The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

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    The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

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    The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

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    The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up.

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    The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

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    The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

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    The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

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    The more you’re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it’s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

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    The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

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    The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

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    The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

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    The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

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    The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

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    The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

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    The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

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    The most enjoyable part in writing a series is being able to visit a world I have created and revisit old friends. The challenges are making the book fresh and new for readers who have started from the beginning while still adding old information for new readers.

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    The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

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    The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

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    The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

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    The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

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    The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

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    The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated grief" in on the process. You can imagine how tempting it is to try to fight the part of you that loops and loops, caught up in tangled sorrow from which it seems there's no escape.

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    The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

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    The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.

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    The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

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    The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence of fear, to go to those places that you think you can’t write - really that’s exactly what you need to write.

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    The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as you are able to write fluidly, very quickly, very effortlessly. It needs to become not second nature but really first nature to you. And read; you need to read and you need to read excellent books and then some bad books. Not as many bad books, but some bad books, so that you can see what both look like and why both are what they are.

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    The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I was not able to do it as a politician or a businessman. My writing did it. And it sure makes me feel good! I'm mentally prepared for the worst, but hopeful for the best. I think I have the moral victory.

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    The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

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    The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

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    The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can write whatever is hot. You can't say you're going to write romance when you don't even like it. You need to write what you would read if you expect anybody else to read it.

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    The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus operate within the boundaries of memory and fact.

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    The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

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    The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.

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    The most important thing as a comic and a writer is to have a strong point of view. I have one and can recognise it in others which is why I can write for other people and different characters that I perform.

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    The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

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    The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just feel it. And it's all about the atmosphere, the people around you, you know, everything. You got to be clear headed in that and have a perfect atmosphere.

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    The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

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    The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

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    The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

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    The most original novelist now writing in English.

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    The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

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    The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.

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    The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.

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    The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.

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    The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

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    The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.