Orson Scott Card Quotes

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

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.

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

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.

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

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.

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

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

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

The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk act and think.

You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.