My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
Orson Scott CardMusic isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?
Orson Scott CardMaybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.
Orson Scott CardI always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
Orson Scott CardAs history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. Itโs like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is โdescended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.โ Willingness is the single most important test.
Orson Scott Card