Books Quotes by Orson Scott Card

I buy way too many books.

— Orson Scott Card

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

— Orson Scott Card

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

— Orson Scott Card

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

— Orson Scott Card

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

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

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

“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

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

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked…

— Orson Scott Card

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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