Quotes from Orson Scott Card

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

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

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.

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

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

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.

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

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. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along?the same person that I am today.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.