Orson Scott Card
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
Orson Scott CardThey get us to fight each other, to hate each other, the game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing.
Orson Scott CardSickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
Orson Scott CardThe future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott CardI wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott CardLaws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott CardOne mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott CardWelcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
Orson Scott CardWriting sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
Orson Scott CardTo have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
Orson Scott CardUlysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott CardYour work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Orson Scott CardI 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.
Orson Scott CardThere is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that's the War on Terror.
Orson Scott CardI am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
Orson Scott CardBut in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
Orson Scott CardI listen to music constantly while writing.
Orson Scott CardI have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
Orson Scott CardI don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
Orson Scott CardIt's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott CardOf 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.
Orson Scott CardIn all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Orson Scott CardI buy way too many books.
Orson Scott CardEverything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott CardAmong my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
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