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
Orson Scott Card quotes about
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?
Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.