1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. And when a life ends as mine will end, no one can persuade me that the cost was not worth what it has brought me at last.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.

the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.