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Writer Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story…
- 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…
- 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…
- Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that…
- Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by…
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