More from Orson Scott Card

  1. You need to remember that what you're dealing with here is the ideas I had when I was 16 that I'm putting in my fiction now.
  2. I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. (from the introduction to the story collection Futur…
  3. If you write like James Joyce, you will have an audience of twenty. The other nineteen - besides your mother, because your father won't rea…
  4. If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is? (Ibid.)
  5. Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
  6. Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
  7. 'The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. -Xe…
  8. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

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