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 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
...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to… — 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
Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold… — 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
