Quotes from Orson Scott Card

Stubborn' just means you don't want to do something somebody else wants you to do, and 'annoying' just means somebody else is frustrated that you won't obey them.

It made him a better soldier than he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.

Ezekiel wanted to cry and he wanted to scream. Cry because he couldn't believe how painful all of this must have been, how sad and lonely Beth must have been. And scream because he never had a clue about the deep pain in Beth's life.

But the officer stood up and stepped across the room to Ender. He held out his hand. "My name is Graff, Ender. Colonel Hyrum Graff. I'm director of primary training at Battle School in the Belt. I've come to invite you to enter the school.

Nuestra misión es salvar el mundo, no curar corazones heridos. Eres demasiado compasivo.

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument. Bean hated it.

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

You don't represent all humankind. You're about to fight a war with other humans. So how can you say that our wars are evil and your wars are good?' Surely Pizarro, for all his shortcomings, had an easier time of it with Atahualpa

Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are not like the observable world around them.

So? Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.

If good people weren't so trusting of bad ones, the human race would have died out long ago—most women never would have let most men near them.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Il eut un surprenant sourire, puis il me prit dans ses bras et me dit : « Je ne pensais que tu m'avais trahi la dernière fois que tu as parti. Je ne comprenais pas, Lanik. Je pensais que si je te faisais confiance, cela signifie que tu agirais toujours comme je le voulais. ..

Individually, human beings are all dolts.>

Novinha could not bear the prospect of company, of kindness, of people trying to console her.

And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich. Money and talent aren't the same thing. That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors, said Sister Carlotta. And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent.

You cannot absorb losses!" Mazer shouted at him after one battle. "When you get into a real battle you won't have the luxury of an infinite supply of computer-generated fighters. You'll have what you brought with you and nothing more. Now get used to fighting without unnecessary waste.

it's for people like that, short-sighted, suicidal people, that we're pushing Ender to the edge of human endurance.' 'I think you underestimate Ender.' 'But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?' 'Sir, those words sound like treason.' 'It was black humor.

Maybe we only thought we were different from each other out of jealousy

When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds.

If you have people do some magic, impossible thing by stroking a talisman or praying to a tree, it's fantasy; if they do the same thing by pressing a button or climbing inside a machine, it's science fiction.

launches usually moved into the armies together

Our lives are just our genes and our upbringing. We simply act out the script that was forced upon us.

Theresa dismissively. "It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid." "What makes me saddest," said John Paul, "is that Locke is getting credit for caring about Ender more than anybody. So when his identity does come out, it'll look as though he loyally stepped in to protect his brother.