Admiration Quote by Orson Scott Card

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

— George Orwell

“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly.…

— Chancery Stone

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as…

— Henry Rollins

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

— Paulo Coelho

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

— George Orwell

“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us…

— Pamela Paul

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

— Ann Beattie

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner