As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
– Orson Scott Card
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
– Orson Scott Card
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
– Orson Scott Card
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
– Orson Scott Card
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
– Orson Scott Card
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
– Orson Scott Card
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
– 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
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
– Orson Scott Card
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.