Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I
Ender grinned back. Teacher, he said. Do you have a name? Mazer Rackham, said the old man.
Ender Wiggin isn’t a killer. He just wins—thoroughly. If anybody’s going to be scared, let it be the buggers. Makes you almost feel sorry for them, knowing Ender’s going to be coming after them.
Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine?
Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most...
But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore....
Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
Armies have spent a lot of time and effort training their soldiers not to think of the enemy as human beings. It’s so much easier to kill them if you think of them as dangerous animals. The trouble is...
And you don’t understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms.
And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.
And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for a place where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time.
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
All the way up to the surface, Valentine struggled to make sense of what had happened. She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of languag...
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior...
A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.
A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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.
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 do...