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I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?
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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 get a different answer.
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Lolla-Wossiky is left like a White man then. Cut off from the land. Ground crunching underfoot. Branches snagging. Roots tripping. Animals running away.
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Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?
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I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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She did love him, you know... It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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'Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.''Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.' Alvin chuckled grimly. 'Oh, that mouth you’ve got.''You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.'
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I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.
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As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.
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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
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I buy way too many books.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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'Part of the test,' said Sillain, 'is seeing how well you obey orders.''Then I fail,' said John Paul.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps... loosen them up.
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Every terrible thing in the world was caused by a whole combination of things. But everybody wanted to narrow it down to one cause-and not even the real one. Much better to have one cause-one person to punish. Then the unbearable could be borne.
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
Orson Scott Card