All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to… — 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
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?"… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important… — 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
But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on… — 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
