Stories Quotes by Orson Scott Card

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

— Orson Scott Card

“Stories are invented as you go along...”

— Orson Scott Card

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

— Orson Scott Card

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

— Orson Scott Card

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

— Orson Scott Card

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

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

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to…

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In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the…

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When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence.…

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At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why…

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You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have…

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The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my…

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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because…

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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

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

“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I’ll overreach myself once too…

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[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I…

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Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I…

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She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little…

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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

I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to…

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You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come…

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...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.…

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I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are…

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Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a…

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. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked…

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The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at…

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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