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

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

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

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott Card

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
Orson Scott Card

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

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Orson Scott Card

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

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.
Orson Scott Card

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

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

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

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
Orson Scott Card

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

You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Orson Scott Card