I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead. Orson Scott Card downfall enough evil The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves. Orson Scott Card destruction evil desire The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. Orson Scott Card careers stupid class The only way to learn is by changing your mind. Orson Scott Card wisdom mind way Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life. Orson Scott Card fate clever children How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out. Orson Scott Card pathways hell clever A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds. Orson Scott Card library journey world I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time. Orson Scott Card independent children past 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. Orson Scott Card creating stories world You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off. Orson Scott Card growing-up house writing At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life. Orson Scott Card genre-is innovation challenges My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them. Orson Scott Card bloody clean hands When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth. Orson Scott Card party powerful lying Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them? Orson Scott Card humble trying men Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. Orson Scott Card groups grief people When you really know someone, you can't hate him. Orson Scott Card hate-him hate knows There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul. Orson Scott Card names father children Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves. Orson Scott Card soul humanity heart I listen to music constantly while writing. Orson Scott Card concentration listening-to-music writing I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more. Orson Scott Card hope-to-live decades
