“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are… — 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
We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might… — 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
Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway?… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act,… — 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
You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and… — 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
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
