"Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden." ― Orson Scott Card Topic(s): Work More From 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." "I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father." "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." More In Work "One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it."― Mae West "Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don’t do anything."― Katy Perry "As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it."― David Hockney