1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.

It’s the teachers, they’re the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.

There’s never enough information... That’s the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.

The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn’t think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn’t the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.

They aren’t having a mental conversation between people with different thought processes. All their thoughts are present, together, at once.

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.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn’t; fantasy is about what couldn’t be.