If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I’ll overreach myself once too… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
![“[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me…” quote by Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f0/orson-scott-card-134_audience_it-was-written-and-sold-i-knew-it-was-a_647650.jpg)
