“I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die...the truth about ourselves. Somehow this ancient… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I think you can’t possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them. I think the Speaker loved Father. Marcão, I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It's just cause and effect. We never can sort them out.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The truth is that good fantasies carefully limit the magic that's possible. In fact, the magic has to be defined, at least… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth. — 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
