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The phrase "authorial vanity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an excessive pride or self-importance that an author may have regarding their own work or writing style.
Example: "The novel was criticized for its authorial vanity, as the writer seemed more focused on showcasing their literary prowess than on telling a compelling story."
Alternatives: "writerly arrogance" or "literary pride".
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— and no small measure of authorial vanity.
It is interesting that so modest, so resolutely un-self-aggrandizing a writer as Wolff should be so adept at capturing the nuances of authorial vanity.
This is authorial vanity, of course, but it is also a pressing sense of all that is lost with a death.
Robert Bathurst, in this revival, lends Charles the right air of self-centredness and authorial vanity: at one stage, he seems mildly tickled to be at the centre of an astral menage a trois but eventually his exasperation at being so comprehensively spooked shines through.
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Vanity! Vanity!
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
"Retro vanity".
Marketing phenomenon, authorial manifestation.
Is it authorial playfulness?
Size vanity?
O, vanity!
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