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
Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.
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.