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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truth, Space, Holding

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

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

Long, Die, Keep

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
Orson Scott Card

Life, Love, Change

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, Everything, Ideas

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

Before, Grateful, Felt

I buy way too many books.
Orson Scott Card

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card

Money, Writing, Career

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, Everything, Ideas

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, Important

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 24, 1951

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