I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
![“[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me…” quote by Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f0/orson-scott-card-134_audience_it-was-written-and-sold-i-knew-it-was-a_647650.jpg)
