Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Richland
Washington
Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
Motivation
Writers
Motivational
Ought
Wonder
Sometimes
Admiration
Contempt
More quotes by Orson Scott Card
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what? asked Wang-mu. I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes, said Peter. Then let's do it. That's us in spades.
Orson Scott Card
Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
Orson Scott Card
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
Orson Scott Card
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.
Orson Scott Card
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
Orson Scott Card
One mind can think only of its own questions it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott Card
But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
Orson Scott Card
I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
Orson Scott Card
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card
I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
Orson Scott Card
For children love is a feeling for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
Orson Scott Card
If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
Orson Scott Card
Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
Orson Scott Card
I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
Orson Scott Card
I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
Orson Scott Card
Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.
Orson Scott Card
I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
Orson Scott Card
I listen to music constantly while writing.
Orson Scott Card
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
Orson Scott Card
Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.
Orson Scott Card