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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
- Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. — Orson Scott Card
- My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. — Orson Scott Card
- I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card