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Orson Scott Card

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card is saying that the broad, basic classes he initially didn’t want to take actually provided him with essential knowledge. This general education became the important base that allowed him to succeed as a writer.

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