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Orson Scott Card Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
Tagged: human beings, human thinking, Beliefs, Principles, Philosophy
“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”
— Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
Tagged: Happiness, change vs. happiness, Love, Care, Inspirational
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet)
Tagged: humanity, Happiness, Demand, Brilliant, Intelligence
“I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet)
Tagged: Understanding, Relating to someone, Knowing Someone
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”
— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
Tagged: humanity, Human Beauty, understanding humans, Goodness In Everyone, sympathy, Life, Inspirational
“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Tagged: Dreams, Motivational, Hard Work
“Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.”
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Tagged: Self-hatred, Alone, Confused
“The world is always a democracy, in times of flux and the man with the best voice will win.”
— Peter, Ender's Game
Tagged: strategy, Politics
“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet)
Tagged: first lines of books
“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Tagged: Life, Change, Starting Over, Words, Wisdom
“In the year 1830, after the formation of Starways Congress, a robot scout ship sent a report by ansible: The planet it was investigating was well within the parameters for human life.”
— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (The Ender Quintet)
Tagged: first lines of books, Science Fiction, New Planets
“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”
— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead(The Ender Quintet)
Tagged: Hatred, Hate
“We play by their rules long enough and it becomes our game.”
— Valentine, Ender's Game
Tagged: strategy, Rules
“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 going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to ‘write through it,’ because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.”
— Orson Scott Card, Fiction Factor
Tagged: Writer's Block, Advice, Writing, Art, Creativity, rebel, Readers
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