Orson Scott Card Biography

Biography

Type: Novelist, Critic, Public Speaker, Essayist and Columnist.

Born: August 24, 1951 (age 64), Richland, Wash

Died:

Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (“Magic Street”, “Enchantment”, “Lost Boys”), biblical novels (“Stone Tables”, “Rachel and Leah”), the American frontier fantasy series “The Tales of Alvin Make”r (beginning with “Seventh Son”), poetry (“An Open Book”), and many plays and scripts, including his "freshened" Shakespeare scripts for “Romeo & Juliet”, “The Taming of the Shrew”, and “The Merchant of Venice”.

Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.

Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, where his primary activities are writing a review column for the local Rhinoceros Times and feeding birds, squirrels, chipmunks, possums, and raccoons on the patio.

Orson Scott Card Quotes

Orson Scott Card Life Messages

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.. Orson Scott Card Life

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

Life, Forgiveness, World

Orson Scott Card Love Messages

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him,

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

Love, Hate, Enemy

Orson Scott Card Quotes About Truth

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Truth, Wisdom, People

Orson Scott Card Truth Messages

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true.

Truth, Acceptance

Orson Scott Card Quotes About Art

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Art, Writers, Writing

Orson Scott Card Best Writing Quotes

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

Writing