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“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”
― Thomas Wolfe
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“We are each the authors of our own lives. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford
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“We don’t read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we’re living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”
― Orson Scott Card
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“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan
Author Spotlight: Orson Scott Card
Renaissance Man of Writing:
Orson Scott Card is an author, essayist, critic, columnist, professor, poet, public speaker, political activist, and now co-producer for a film. He writes many different genres, but he is predominately known for science fiction. His most notable work is Ender’s Game, a novel that won both the Hugo and Nebula Award for science fiction. After years of denying to sell the movie rights, Card is finally allowing a film adaptation of Ender’s Game. The film is currently in production and with Card’s assistance as co-producer, the film will be be released in November of 2013.
Orson Scott Card’s publication debut was the short story “Gert Fram” in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of “Ender’s Game” in the August issue of Analog. Since then he has published over 60 books, plus numerous short stories and anthologies. Card has become a world-renowned author with a wide fan base.
The Man Behind the Words:
Orson Scott Card was the third of six children born to Willard and Peggy Card. He was born in Richland, Virginia and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. Before graduating from Brigham Young, the University of Utah, and Notre Dame, Card was a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, the environment that played a significant role in Ender’s Game and some of his other literary works. Card and his wife Kristine have had five children, each named after one or more authors that he and his wife admire.
As a young boy Card found a love for books. He would go to the library in his hometown and read books from the children’s section and the adults’ section. This is where he discovered the fairly new genre of science fiction; the genre that would fuel his career as a writer. Card’s childhood was fairly normal, but he would read strange books for a boy his age. Card would read fairy tales, English literature, and anything else he could get his hands on.
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