World Quotes by Orson Scott Card

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

— Orson Scott Card

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

— Orson Scott Card

“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.”

— Orson Scott Card

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

— Orson Scott Card

A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

— Orson Scott Card

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

— Orson Scott Card

I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.

— Orson Scott Card

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.

— Orson Scott Card

“who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are…

— Orson Scott Card

At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate.…

— Orson Scott Card

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a…

— Orson Scott Card

“The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending…

— Orson Scott Card

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create…

— Orson Scott Card

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked…

— Orson Scott Card

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write…

— Orson Scott Card

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might…

— Orson Scott Card

And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in…

— Orson Scott Card

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

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the…

— Orson Scott Card

You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen…

— Orson Scott Card

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

To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back.…

— Orson Scott Card

If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live…

— Orson Scott Card

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and…

— Orson Scott Card

...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

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

— Orson Scott Card

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the…

— Orson Scott Card

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it…

— Orson Scott Card

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world…

— Orson Scott Card

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,…

— Orson Scott Card

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act,…

— Orson Scott Card

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind…

— Orson Scott Card

But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway?…

— Orson Scott Card

This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is…

— Orson Scott Card