Orson Scott Card Quotes on Fiction
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight
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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that [she] was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time
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Fiction is a very poor tool for conversion, because if I label it as fiction then I'm telling you it's a pack of lies from the very start.
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We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness-the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
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Faster than light travel - do I think it could happen in the way I describe? [snort] No.
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You need to remember that what you're dealing with here is the ideas I had when I was 16 that I'm putting in my fiction now.
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Ender's Game
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Speaker for the Dead
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Xenocide
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Children of the Mind
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Ender's Shadow