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37 quotes by Orson Scott Card

Signature Website www.hatrack.com Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of...
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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... →

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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

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

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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

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I buy way too many books.

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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

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I listen to music constantly while writing.

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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

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

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

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

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