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
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.
It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.
It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.