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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[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear...

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He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.

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As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

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Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?

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I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

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Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

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So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

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

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It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

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I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

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We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

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If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

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Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understang why I hate myself so badly.

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Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

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I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

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Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

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What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

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

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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.

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Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said. 'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine. 'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be worse.' 'I don't know how.' 'It could be an anal exam.

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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