“I suppose the Valley of the Na, in Always Coming Home, is where I think I'd most like to live; but that's… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“it is as if i were dead, and this is the after-life, her in the sunlight, beyond the edge of the world,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman?… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“As a child in Atuan, Tenar had learned how to learn. There seemed always to be a great deal to be learned,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up:that an adult is not a dead child, but a child… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Since he was very young he had known that in certain ways he was unlike anyone else he knew. For a child… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
