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Story Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story…
- The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try…
- Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire,…
- I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right…
- [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…
- Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.
- . . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world,…
- 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: the…
- The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then…
- The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when…
- But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only…
- nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be…
- She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had…
- When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be…
- A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree,…
- If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
- Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by…
- Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't…
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