Two Reasons to Want to be a Writer (according to Orson Scott Card)

In the postcript of the audiobook version of Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card shared the two reasons anyone decides to become a writer.

You read something amazing and say, “Oh, wow, I want to be able to write like that.” You read something awful and say, “If that got published, then I can write.”

The more I think about this the more I think he is exactly right.

Here are just a couple of examples that come to mind:

Example of #1: 

When Charlie Holmberg (The Paper Magician) was 13 she watched a...