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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Orson Scott Card

Reason

Community

Way

" 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. "

" Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. "

" I buy way too many books. "

" In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. "

" 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

Only

" I listen to music constantly while writing. "

" 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. "

" You who speak languages, you are such liars. "

" 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. "

" Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. "

" 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

Civilization

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. "

" 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. "

" I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. "

Orson Scott Card

Children

I Am

" My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. "

" 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

Say

" I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. "

" Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. "

" 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. "

" Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. "

" One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. "

" Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. "

" There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. "

" Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going. "

" Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. "

" Working is hard and distracts from having fun. "