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" My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. "
Orson Scott Card
College
Training
Theatre
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" The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. "
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You
Training
" The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make. "
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Control
Choice
God
" You who speak languages, you are such liars. "
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Speak
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You
" I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. "
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Ideas
Important
New
" Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. "
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People
Wonder
Why
" I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. "
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Writing
Money
Feel
" I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. "
Orson Scott Card
War
Me
Say
" The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe. "
Orson Scott Card
Job
Best
Day
" Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. "
Orson Scott Card
Communication
Truth
Most
" I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. "
Orson Scott Card
I Wonder
Sometimes
Wonder
" Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. "
Orson Scott Card
Continue
Elite
Fall
" Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. "
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First
Everything
Important
" God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. "
Orson Scott Card
Free
Environment
God
" There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. "
Orson Scott Card
Say
Acting
Citizen
" I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. "
Orson Scott Card
Grateful
Am
Civilization
" One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. "
Orson Scott Card
Own
Think
Surprises
" Working is hard and distracts from having fun. "
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Hard
Fun
Working
" In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. "
Orson Scott Card
Love
Moment
Defeat
" I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more. "
Orson Scott Card
Live
More
Only
" I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. "
Orson Scott Card
Children
Am
I Am
" The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. "
Orson Scott Card
Stupid
Knowledge
Foundation
" But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. "
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Change
Work
Writing
" I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. "
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Believe
People
I Believe
" As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. "
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Alright
You
Long
" I buy way too many books. "
Orson Scott Card
Way
Books
Too
" The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. "
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Lies
Always
Stories
" There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. "
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Reason
Community
Way
" My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. "
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Book
You
Work
" It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. "
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Middle
Class
Luxury