Orson Scott Card Quotes - Page 14

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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 familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.

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  Creating, Stories, World

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.61, Writer's Digest Books

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• What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

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  Waste, Wasting Time

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• A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

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  Journey, Library, World

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• One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

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  War, Irritation, Bachelors

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1337, Macmillan

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• I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

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  Luxury, Long, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Songmaster”, p.4, Macmillan

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• If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

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  Drunk, Brain, Desire

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• Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

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  Interesting, Ender, My Own

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• Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

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  Mom, Thinking, Dust

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• Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

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  Agony, Bears, Misery

  Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.187, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Training, Important, No Hope

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• One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

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  Thinking, Mind, Surprise

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.616, Macmillan

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• Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

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  Successful, Secret, Honey

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• If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

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  Reading, Kids, Parent

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• I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

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  Care, Tests, Firsts

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.216, Macmillan

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• People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

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  Boys, People, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Medicine

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• Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

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  Enemy, Going Away, Wish

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• Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

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  Mother, Husband, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.86, Macmillan

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• 'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

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  Ruthlessness, Enders Game, Peter

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.35, Macmillan

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• 'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

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  Lasts, Ruthlessness, Favors

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.160, Macmillan

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• If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

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  Creativity, Men, Order

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Giant”, p.303, Macmillan

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• All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

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  People, Soldier, Groups

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Empire”, p.93, Macmillan

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• In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

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  Mean, Science, Technology

  "Orson Scott Card talks Ender's game in rare interview". Interview with Shane Snow, www.wired.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

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  Book, Satanic, Behave

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• A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

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  Strong, Kings, Names

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Hart's Hope”, p.32, Macmillan

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