Quotes by Orson Scott Card

About Orson Scott Card:

Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in late October 2013 in Europe and on November 1, 2013, in North America.
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As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him (Stephen). Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he?...

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Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

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I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

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I don't think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It's just cause and effect. We never can sort them out. Science refuses to admit any cause except first cause-knock down one domino, the one next to it also falls. But when it comes to human bei...

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

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When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

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When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him passage. You. Speaker—ever since I first learned Stark and read , I waited for you. I said many times to ...

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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

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I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

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You were baptized?" "My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet...

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You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile. The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me.

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I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy. Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin.

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The emotion she could deal with best was anger.

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

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So the I.F. is spying on Earth." "Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard." "Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.

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Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you o...

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How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

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You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

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Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

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Author Bio

  • NameOrson Scott Card
  • DescriptionScience fiction novelist
  • BornAugust 24, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksEnder's Game Hexalogy; The Tales Of Alvin Maker Heptalogy
  • AwardsMargaret Edwards Award; Nebula Award; Hugo Award