Orson Scott Card Quotes

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.

The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.

Realizing that my surroundings were going to be built around me, the way that I performed, we helped the directors through the performance, to create the world that we were going to be seen in. I was very fascinated with that.

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Games aren't created by writers rocking up to developers saying 'I have this great game story.' It's about establishing relationships and working hand in hand to create something wonderful.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense.

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved obviously and openly fit that description: They came with maps and glossaries and timelines - books like Lord Of The Rings, Dune, The Chronicles Of Narnia. I imagined that's what being a writer was: You invented a world, and you did it in a very detailed way, and you told stories that were set in that world.