American - Writer | August 24, 1951 -
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
Orson Scott Card
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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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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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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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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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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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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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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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