Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Gameand its sequel Speaker for the Deadboth won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in late October 2013 in Europe and on November 1, 2013, in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 August 1951
CountryUnited States of America
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.
He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--
He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.