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I listen to music constantly while writing.

Quote by Orson Scott about writing, music

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.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers

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...

Quote by Orson Scott about nation, light, war

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

Quote by Orson Scott about motivation, contempt, admiration, writers, miracle

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Quote by Orson Scott about being

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Quote by Orson Scott about books

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

Quote by Orson Scott about metaphors, univers, truth

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

Quote by Orson Scott about theatre, actors

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, contentment

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, contentment

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 lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

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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.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers, experience, hope, contentment, things, life

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.

Quote by Orson Scott about god

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.

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