1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.