Orson Scott Card Quotes

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Metaphors  have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. - Orson Scott Card quote.
Metaphors  have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
— Orson Scott Card Alvin Journeyman

metaphor

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. - Orson Scott Card quote.
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
— Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead

beliefs

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 quote.
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

religion

I've struggled to pull energetic stories out of a lethargic mind.  It's worth the time to take an hour's walk before writing.  You may write a bit less for the time spent, but you may find that you write better. - Orson Scott Card quote.
I've struggled to pull energetic stories out of a lethargic mind.  It's worth the time to take an hour's walk before writing.  You may write a bit less for the time spent, but you may find that you write better.
— Orson Scott Card How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy

walking

The characters who come to life on the page or on the stage are the ones that have passed through the storyteller's imagination. Your readers already "know" people as well as real people ever know each other. They turn to fiction in order to know people better than they can ever know them in real life. - Orson Scott Card quote.
The characters who come to life on the page or on the stage are the ones that have passed through the storyteller's imagination. Your readers already "know" people as well as real people ever know each other. They turn to fiction in order to know people better than they can ever know them in real life.
— Orson Scott Card Characters and Viewpoint

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