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. Orson Scott Card Read Quote
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. Orson Scott Card Read Quote
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. Orson Scott Card Read Quote
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. Orson Scott Card Read Quote
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. Orson Scott Card Read Quote
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. Orson Scott Card Read Quote
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. Orson Scott Card Read Quote
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. Orson Scott Card Read Quote
