Orson Scott Card Quotes

• Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

  Orson Scott Card

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People

• Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

  Orson Scott Card

  Topics in Truth

• Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

  Orson Scott Card

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Detest, Racialism, Loathsome, Feel

• I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

  Orson Scott Card

  Topics in Children, Father

  Tags in Dad, Good, Hope

• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you’ll get a different answer.

  Orson Scott Card

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guns, Rings, Nonfiction, Again, Another, Answer

• Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.

  Orson Scott Card

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Capitalism, Garden

• My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

  Orson Scott Card

  Tags in Primarily, Theatre, Producer, Director

• One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

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  Tags in Surprises, Rarely

• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  Orson Scott Card

  Tags in Stopping, Rejoin

• Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

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• You who speak languages, you are such liars.

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• Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it’s going.

  Orson Scott Card

• Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

  Orson Scott Card

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  Orson Scott Card

• There’s a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be ‘good,’ to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  Orson Scott Card

• There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

  Orson Scott Card

• The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he’s responsible for every choice we make.

  Orson Scott Card

• The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don’t, there’s no hope for you.

  Orson Scott Card

• Laws against homos*xual behavior should remain on the books.

  Orson Scott Card

• It’s the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

  Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card (53)

Birth:	24th August, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Critic, Essayist, Professor

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