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Orson Scott Card Quotes
Orson Scott Card Quotes
Orson Scott Card
American
Writer
Born:
Aug 24
,
1951
First
Good
Will
Work
Writing
You
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
Orson Scott Card
War
Government
Me
Light
Matter
Will
Values
Important
Lose
Say
Threatens
Democrat
Domination
Endangered
Role
America
Nations
Hold
Republican
Many
Whom
Among
Gravely
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
Orson Scott Card
Hope
Good
Father
Remembered
Am
Children
Dad
Good Father
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Orson Scott Card
Love
Enemy
Defeat
Enough
Also
Well
Him
Well Enough
Understand
Truly
Very
Then
Moment
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Orson Scott Card
Will
Live
Tell
Lies
Always
Stories
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
Orson Scott Card
God
Will
Control
Every
Our
Say
Responsible
Puppeteer
He
Priests
Puts
Make
Another
Souls
Just
Then
Us
Created
Choice
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
Orson Scott Card
Good
Community
Every
Society
Benefit
Way
How
Behave
Human
Fiction
Us
Teaches
Reason
Whole
Human Society
Why
I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
Orson Scott Card
People
Alien
Believe
Different
Really
Different People
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
Orson Scott Card
God
Result
Cause
Will
Free
Free Will
Stupid
Our
Way
Ancient
Some
Environment
Individuals
Genes
Terminal
Exist
Code
Ever
External
Programmer
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card
You
Long
Some
Born
Alright
Times
Die
Getting
Keep
I listen to music constantly while writing.
Orson Scott Card
Music
Writing
Constantly
Listen
While
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
Orson Scott Card
Grateful
Poison
Before
Own
Our
Civilization
Known
Felt
Am
Least
However
Began
Effects
Fifties
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
Orson Scott Card
Life
Hope
You
Experience
Training
Will
Important
Other
Everything
Though
No Hope
Inventing
Writer
Come
Most
Questioning
The Most Important
Explanations
Multiple
Things
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
Angry
Grief
People
Sometimes
Made
Other
Loathsome
Critics
Rather
Having
Various
Detest
Put
Feel
Also
Course
Proud
Hear
Up
Wonder
Times
While
Who
Groups
Why
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card
You
Speak
Liars
Languages
Who
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card
Sometimes
Ought
Admiration
Writers
Contempt
Motivation
Wonder
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card
First
Important
Everything
Magazines
Writers
New
Ideas
Sci-Fi
New Ideas
Proving
Up
Ground
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