Orson Scott Card Quotes

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have it all for it to work for me.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history