1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

When there aren’t any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.

He can have friends. It's parents he can't have.

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen."Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?

The novelty and freshness you'll bring to the field won't come from the new ideas you think up. Truly new ideas are rare, and usually turn out to be variations on old themes anyway. No, your freshness will come from the way you think, from the person you are; it will inevitably show up in your writing, provided you don't mask it with heavy-handed formulas or clichés.

Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.

The other boys started to complain that pushing off walls was movement, not combat. "There is no combat without movement," Ender said.

He didn't feel that way about anybody. 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 and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart....