I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“And it’s true, thought Valentine. I’m not the same person, really, from book to book, because each world changes who I am,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write… — 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
“If a tale we're reading or watching on screen is too familiar, it becomes boring; we know the end from the beginning… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say ‘Oh,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I’ll overreach myself once too… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is at the heart of Ender's Game, and the reason it works so well is because it carries with it the… — 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
And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you,… — 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
“The computers of the Hundred Worlds were hands and feet, eyes and ears to her. She spoke every language that had ever… — 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
“The kids are vicious. They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna.” “When did you read Pollyanna?” “It was a book?” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I’m not a character in one of your novels.” “More’s the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.” — 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
“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
Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
