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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.

Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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