Quotes from Orson Scott Card

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

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

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

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

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.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

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.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.