The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

Orson Scott Card

Categorized in : Gone Strong Crazy

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

Orson Scott Card

doubt mean

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Orson Scott Card

want believe thinking

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

Orson Scott Card

happy-endings opposites sometimes

The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

Orson Scott Card

failure pain book

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.

Orson Scott Card

stories mind desire

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

Orson Scott Card

important stories writing

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Orson Scott Card

know-how order art

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

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eye stupid men

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

Orson Scott Card

whole enough men

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Orson Scott Card

miracle mistake trying

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

Orson Scott Card

hungry lord religion

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

Orson Scott Card

pretending

O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

Orson Scott Card

knowing men son

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

Orson Scott Card

battle games helping

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

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forgotten

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

Orson Scott Card

loyalty winning rooms

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Orson Scott Card

care children ideas

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Orson Scott Card

ender problem winning

You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.

Orson Scott Card

answers said

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Orson Scott Card

hate fighting teacher