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 doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.
Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
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.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Madness, and then illumination.
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?