Orson Scott Card Quotes - Page 4

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

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. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation.

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Stories are invented as you go along...

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 each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like-history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

After twenty-five years of marriage, they could see each other clearly without having to look.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.