“I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a… — 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
“Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It's just cause and effect. We never can sort them out.… — 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
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything… — 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
I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never… — 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
“...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll… — 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
