Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.
Orson Scott CardThe difference between science fiction and fantasy โฆ is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.
Orson Scott CardIf you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.
Orson Scott CardAs history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. Itโs like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is โdescended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.โ Willingness is the single most important test.
Orson Scott Card