11 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Youth

Orson Scott Card quotes on youth

46. We don't think like other children, do we...? We don't talk like other children. And above all, we don't write like other children.

65. You were reckless, brilliant and young.

228. Brilliant young people who were nevertheless silly with love-or youth, as if it made a difference.

352. [He] was young, too young to see the consequences of his actions, too young to contain his feelings.

404. You're still young so you still think the whole universe revolves around you. But the fact is that it doesn't

551. Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?

577. The smooth, white skin of a boy who had never worked or fought in his life, and yet a posture of utter boldness, as if he had never met an equal, let alone a superior

818. He is so young He was never young

896. Savanna had said, 'Come back soon. Come back while you're still young enough to want me. For I'm going to be young forever' I wasn't young anymore, not by any definition of the word. But I wanted her. Perhaps I only wanted the innocence of the children we had been, making love beside the river, oblivious to the pain that could and surely would come to them. Still, I wanted her more than I wanted anyone else in the world, not because my passion was so overwhelming, but because all the other things I wanted were either painfully accomplished or so hopeless that I had given up on them. Only she was left

933. It's in the nature of young men to be lonely. Did you think you were unique?

1100. You need to remember that what you're dealing with here is the ideas I had when I was 16 that I'm putting in my fiction now.