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I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
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Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
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