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Orson Scott Card Quotes

Orson Scott Card quotes about good

American Writer August 24, 1951

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What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth. Orson Scott Card
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you! Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic..."
What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading."
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them,..."
If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent-time. 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. Orson Scott Card
What am I now, Alai?"Still good."At what?"At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe."I don't want to go to the end of the universe."So where do you want to go? They'll follow you."I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come..."
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow. Orson Scott Card
When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer. Orson Scott Card
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on. 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
It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "Sometimes good people have to do terrible things."
Sometimes good people have to do terrible things. Orson Scott Card
Humans are free except when Humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe Humanity needs me -- to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools. Orson Scott Card
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 Orson Scott Card

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