Quotes from Orson Scott Card

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

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

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

Stories are invented as you go along...

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.