Fiction writers generally accept only those writers who are driven by a desire to tell the stories that they feel must be told as legitimate members of the profession. As a result, many fiction writers do not consider best-selling authors who appear on talk shows and whose books are made into hit movies to be true practitioners of the art of fiction writing.
The explanation offered above for the low opinion many writers have of their best-selling peers assumes that
(A) serious fiction writing requires extensive background research and many hours of hard work
(B) unpopular writers are jealous of writers whose books are more successful than their own books are
(C) some fiction writers can become best-selling authors even if other writers do not consider their work to be of high quality
(D) serious fiction writers believe that popular authors are not motivated to tell stories they believe must be told
(E) the quality of fiction writing can only be judged by other serious writers