Words matter. These are the best Orson Scott Card Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
It’s the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
As long as you keep getting born, it’s alright to die some times.
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you’ll get a different answer.
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it’s going.
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn’t expect it to be a career because I didn’t believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn’t feel particularly lucky.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal – there’s no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
I buy way too many books.
Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
I don’t believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It’s the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
There’s a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be ‘good’, to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It’s the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he’s responsible for every choice we make.
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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 listen to music constantly while writing.