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.
Quote by Orson Scott about fiction, time, work
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37 quotes by Orson Scott
Orson Scott - american writer
Was born on 24 aug 1951.
Origin country: United Kingdom
On a more practical level, what it takes to succeed is to be self-critical enough to learn from your errors, but confident enough (arrogant enough? ) to decide that what you've got is good enough to write and, having written, good enough to send...
Quote by Orson Scott about error, good, good luck, self-control
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Quote by Orson Scott about mind
The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
Quote by Orson Scott about human imperfections, end, things, day
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.
Quote by Orson Scott about education, writers, career, knowledge
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.
Quote by Orson Scott about writers, experience, hope, things, life
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Quote by Orson Scott about good, good luck, writing
There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that's the War on Terror.
Quote by Orson Scott about fear, war
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.
Quote by Orson Scott about fiction, society, reason, human imperfections, good, good luck
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Quote by Orson Scott about fall
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Quote by Orson Scott about capitalism, garden
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
Quote by Orson Scott about writing
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Quote by Orson Scott about nothing, work
