1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.

I don’t know a soul who doesn’t maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

The only teacher that’s worth anything to you is your enemy.

Love and serve the sources of your strength.

See how ignorant you are? You don’t even know why you need to know the things you don’t know yet.

Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves.

Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not “true” because we’re hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-real world. Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.