1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.

…I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say ‘Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!’ To which I reply ‘Well, why? It’s already a book.

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

Petra shook her head. "I knew you were stupid, because you became a talk-therapy shrink, which is like becoming a minister of a religion in which you get to be God.

The enemy's gate is down.

Why is it that the people who should be in authority are usually the people who don't want it, while the people who hold authority are usually the two-faced schemers who've stepped on people's backs to get it?

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

[H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself.