1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

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.

Authority was a little plastic ball that Graff carried.

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko