We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that… — 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
