“Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters. Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If you have people do some magic, impossible thing by stroking a talisman or praying to a tree, it's fantasy; if they… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said. 'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine. 'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I see Ender in you looking out at me. You see Ender in me looking out at you. And yet not one… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today… — 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
