As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted… — 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
Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want… — 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 need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves. — 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
