1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

We may be young, but we’re not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That’s why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don’t, there’s no hope for you.

Names come and go. They get attached to you, and then you lose them, and they get attached to someone else.

Maybe that’s all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we’re doing.

But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them.

Don’t judge me until you understand me. You can’t understand me if you’ve already judged me.

You just live in the place you’re in, you don’t worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here’s where you’ve got to find a way to survive.

I 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.