Orson Scott Card Quotes

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

See with one eye, feel with the other.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

How can one know anything at all about people?

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

I figured out 'The Sixth Sense' in the first 10 minutes. I still found the movie touching.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

I see too deep and too much.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.