That would leave only the lesser writers to take jobs with uncertain forms of payment.

Any of these would be the manipulations of a lesser writer.

In the hands of lesser writers, the form can produce pretty bloodless fiction.

A figure this exotic could have become a caricature in the hands of a lesser writer.

There are stories that would simply be sentimental in the hands of a lesser writer.

A lesser writer would point this out all the time.

A lesser writer would have buckled under the weight of this story.

Not to mention he lifted it from a lesser known writer.

In the work of a lesser writer, such excursions might well seem mere padding.

Why put up with a brilliant premise ruined by a lesser writer.