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
The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.
I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.
And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.