Bottom Quote by George Orwell

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

“Looking back through the last page or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives in writing were wholly…

— George Orwell

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a…

— George Orwell

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long,…

— George Orwell

Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that…

— Kajol

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the…

— Florence Nightingale

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

“Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain . . . and selfish.…

— Scott Westerfeld

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those…

— Anne Bronte

“There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to…

— Anne Brontë

“Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish, it makes you indestructible.”

— Infl4ted

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

— W. Somerset Maugham