Fresh and Startling and Intriguing

02/15/2014 Writing Quote

        I liked this quote. From the introduction to “Ender's Game” By Orson Scott Card:

“I felt a strong desire to write stories that would do for others what
Asimov’s story had done for me. In other genres, that desire is usually
expressed by producing thinly veiled rewrites of the great work: Tolkien’s
disciples far too often simply rewrite Tolkien, for example. In Science Fiction,
however, the whole point is that the ideas are fresh and startling and
intriguing: you imitate the great ones, not by rewriting their stories, but
rather by creating stories that are just as startling and new.”

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