1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

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

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

You couldn't look at children and hope to see much of their parents beyond their physical appearance, and not always that. They came as Wordsworth said, "trailing clouds of glory." Along with a few clouds of other things not quite so glorious.

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

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.

You made them hate me." Said Ender"So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be." -Graff