As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.

~ Orson Scott Card

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...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.

~ Orson Scott Card

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All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are correct. For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

~ Orson Scott Card

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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

~ Orson Scott Card

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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

~ Orson Scott Card

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