It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead. Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. Orson Scott Card genes buried trying 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 block writing interesting That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds Orson Scott Card lakes sky wind It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach. Orson Scott Card truth-is reason fiction The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third. Orson Scott Card titles noble children I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK. Orson Scott Card ender crazy thinking Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans. Orson Scott Card ender nonsense said It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender Orson Scott Card information knowing people This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin. Orson Scott Card voice world moving You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me. Orson Scott Card being-the-best mother people We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it. Orson Scott Card dictator lost needs Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be. Orson Scott Card stars blow lakes Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief. Orson Scott Card understanding intellectual doe What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is. Orson Scott Card soldier want home It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid. Orson Scott Card stupid easy children Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. Orson Scott Card enders-game welcome race I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for. Orson Scott Card having-hope left ifs I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past. Orson Scott Card seeing i-can past I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. Orson Scott Card plant enough long So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. Orson Scott Card next naps want