“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we… — 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
“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly. "You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful." "Memory does play… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Our understanding of doctrine is not perfect, and no matter what the popes have said, I don't believe for a moment that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so stupid or dangerous or painful that people won’t eagerly do it, if by doing it they will make… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Someday they will die, their children will die, all children will die. Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Petra looked at him as if he were an annoying child. “You really are dim,” she said. “I know he’s dangerous,” said… — 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
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.” — 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
