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Book Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
- My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll…
- Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the…
- The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try…
- Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to…
- I buy way too many books.
- Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in…
- Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have…
- I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call…
- I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them…
- nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be…
- No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
- Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said…
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood