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.
Orson Scott Cardyesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system
Orson Scott CardBut if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagarโor Graff, if it was himโlaunch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important theyโd risk a shuttle and itโs crew just to catch me? I find that quiteโฆ flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
Orson Scott CardThat is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds
Orson Scott Card