Quotes from Orson Scott Card

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

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

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

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

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

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

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.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

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.