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title: "7 Secret Writer Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Secret Writer quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Secret Writer sayings and thoughts."
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> [“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-peter-clark/if-you-want-to-write-here-s-a-secret-the-writer-s-struggle-is/)

[Roy Peter Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-peter-clark/)

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> [“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-secret-of-being-a-writer-not-to-expect-others-to-value-what-you/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/every-secret-of-a-writer-s-soul-every-experience-of-his-life-every-2/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [“Then, at last, sitting on her stretcher-bed, she took from the very bottom of her pack an old peacock-blue scarf folded around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/then-at-last-sitting-on-her-stretcher-bed-she-took-from-the-very/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-macleod/the-secret-of-becoming-a-writer-is-to-write-write-and-keep-on-writing/)

[Ken MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-macleod/)

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> [“Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carla-h-krueger-2/every-book-contains-a-secret-even-the-writer-doesn-t-always-know-what/)

[Carla H. Krueger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carla-h-krueger-2/)

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> [When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/when-things-are-going-well-you-do-have-the-sense-that-what-you-re/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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