Orson Scott Card Quote
Alai saw the tears but had the grace not to say so. They're fartheads, Ender, they won't even let you take anything you own. Ender grinned and didn't cry after all. Think I should strip and go naked?Alai laughed, too.On impulse Ender hugged him, tight, almost as if he were Valentine. He even thought of Valentine then and wanted to go home. I don't want to go, he said.Alai hugged him back. I understand them, Ender. You are the best of us. Maybe they in a hurry to teach you everything.They don't want to teach me everything, Ender said. I wanted to learn what it was like to have a friend.Alai nodded soberly. Always my friend, always the best of my friends, he said. Then he grinned. Go slice up the buggers.Yeah, Ender smiled back.Alai suddenly kissed Ender on the cheek and whispered in his ear, Salaam.
Alai saw the tears but had the grace not to say so. They're fartheads, Ender, they won't even let you take anything you own. Ender grinned and didn't cry after all. Think I should strip and go naked?Alai laughed, too.On impulse Ender hugged him, tight, almost as if he were Valentine. He even thought of Valentine then and wanted to go home. I don't want to go, he said.Alai hugged him back. I understand them, Ender. You are the best of us. Maybe they in a hurry to teach you everything.They don't want to teach me everything, Ender said. I wanted to learn what it was like to have a friend.Alai nodded soberly. Always my friend, always the best of my friends, he said. Then he grinned. Go slice up the buggers.Yeah, Ender smiled back.Alai suddenly kissed Ender on the cheek and whispered in his ear, Salaam.
Related Quotes
About Orson Scott Card
Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition to homosexuality has provoked public criticism.
Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Utah and California. While he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), his plays were performed on stage. He served in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and headed a community theater for two summers. Card had 27 short stories published between 1978 and 1979, and he won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1978. He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Utah in 1981 and wrote novels in science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, and historical fiction genres starting in 1979. Card continued to write prolifically, and he has published over 50 novels and 45 short stories.
Card teaches English at Southern Virginia University; he has written two books on creative writing and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest. He has taught many successful writers at his "literary boot camps". He remains a practicing member of the LDS Church and Mormon fiction writers Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, and Dave Wolverton have cited his works as a major influence.