12 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Fiction

Orson Scott Card quotes on fiction

210. All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

515. 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

915. 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

1051. 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.

1068. 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.

1083. Faster than light travel - do I think it could happen in the way I describe? [snort] No.

1100. 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.

1112. Ender's Game

1113. Speaker for the Dead

1114. Xenocide

1115. Children of the Mind

1116. Ender's Shadow