"I think with every writer there are two…" — Hugh Leonard

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• Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. — John le Carre
• Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly… — Leo Rosten
• Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and… — Julian Coolidge
• Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection;… — Thornton Wilder
• You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time… — Samuel Johnson
• Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. — John Scalzi
• Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a… — Peter Straub
• It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who… — Mark Cuban
• It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I… — Trey Parker
• Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and… — Edward Abbey
• Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things… — Holly Lisle

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