8 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Experience

Orson Scott Card quotes on experience

11. This is the essence of the transaction between storyteller and audience. The 'true' story is not the one that exists in my mind; it is certainly not the written words on the bound paper that you hold in your hands. The story in my mind is nothing but a hope; the text of the story is the tool I created in order to try to make that hope a reality. 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 transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

97. Don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there; you've seen nothing but the map

165. I really don't fear death. I never knew that.

240. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very very good.

359. She never finished the sentence, because at that moment [he] began to learn how to kiss a woman, and she, though she had never kissed a man before, became his tutor.

485. So we can discuss things as equals. That would never be possible with them - they're too young. They haven't lived

577. The smooth, white skin of a boy who had never worked or fought in his life, and yet a posture of utter boldness, as if he had never met an equal, let alone a superior

933. It's in the nature of young men to be lonely. Did you think you were unique?