It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that… — 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
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?"… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way… — 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
There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a… — 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
