Orson Scott Card Quotes

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
Orson Scott Card

Dad, Good, Hope

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card

Words, Among, Spoken

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, Him

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card

Truth, Space, Holding

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott Card

Mind, Questions, Surprises

You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card

Liars, Speak, Languages

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, Stupid, Free

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Orson Scott Card

Live, Tell, Lies

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
Orson Scott Card

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
Orson Scott Card

Training, College, Theatre

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
Orson Scott Card

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card

Work, Getting, Capitalism

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
Orson Scott Card

Education, Knowledge, Stupid

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card

Long, Die, Keep

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

Important, Ideas, Ground

I buy way too many books.
Orson Scott Card

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
Orson Scott Card

Hope, Live, Through

I listen to music constantly while writing.
Orson Scott Card

Music, Writing, While

I realized that 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

Important, Ideas, Ground

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card

Sometimes, Motivation, Wonder

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Orson Scott Card

Time, History, Study

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott Card

Able, Class, Middle

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card

Against, Books, Behavior

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Orson Scott Card

Good, Writing, Acting

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card

Fall, Continue, Elite

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 24, 1951

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