Orson Scott Card Quotes

“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“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

“I tell students that suspense comes, not from knowing almost nothing, but from knowing almost everything and caring very much about the small part still unknown.”
― Orson Scott Card

“The enemy's gate is down.”
― Orson Scott Card

“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.”
― Orson Scott Card

“In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart.

"Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"

No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets

“...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.”
― Orson Scott Card

“Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage...

As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage”
― Orson Scott Card

“I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.”
― Orson Scott Card

“All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.”
― Orson Scott Card

“En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero. Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Perversos y retorcidos son los caminos de la mente humana- recitó Jane-. Pinocho fue un idiota intentando convertirse en un niño de verdad. Estaba mucho mejor con su cabeza de madera.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“La Escuela de Batalla no nos ha creado, ya lo sabes. La Escuela de Batalla no crea nada. Solo destruye.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Todo es una ficción, de todas formas. Hacemos lo que hacemos y luego inventamos las razones, pero nunca son las razones verdaderas. La verdad está siempre fuera de nuestro alcance.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“Cambiar al mundo es bueno para aquellos que quieren su nombre en los libros. Pero ser feliz... eso es para aquellos que escriben sus nombres en las vidas de los demás y retienen los corazones de otros como el tesoro más preciado.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“Para conservar la alegría de la infancia tendrías que morir siendo niño, o vivir como tal, sin convertirte nunca en hombre, sin crecde jamás.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets

“Me he hecho una idea de lo que es un niño, y nosotros no somos niños. Los niños pierden de vez en cuando, y a nadie le preocupa. Los niños no están en escuadras, no son comandantes, no mandan a máas de cuarenta chicos, eso es más de lo que un niño puede soportar sin volverse loco”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Si sabes lo que es la locura, tal vez no caigas en ella.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“La semilla de la duda estaba ahí, y permaneció, y de vez en cuando echaba una pequeña raíz. Esa semilla que crecía lo cambió todo. Hizo que Ender prestara más atención a lo que la gente quería decir, no a lo que decía. Le hizo más sabio.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Ah. There's so much that we don't understand. And so much that you don't understand. We should tell each other more.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead