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
Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
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...
Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.
There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.
Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
I listen to music constantly while writing.
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.