The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why do you say that I am alone? My body is with me wherever I am, telling me endless stories of hunger… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Where did this whole thing begin? If what we think of as reality is just a pattern that somebody brought Outside, and the universe… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
