“The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They preserved autonomy of conscience even at the cost of becoming eccentric.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“So he worked. He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labor, lack of variety of occupation, lack… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I think… most women marry to get their freedom." "Then they want less than I do. There’s something inside me, in my… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Writing about our life in the House of Arcamand in the City State of Etra, I fall back into it and see… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It's your nature to be Tirin, and my nature to be Shevek, and our common nature to be Odonians, responsible to one… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Because there is nothing, nothing on Urras that we Anarresti need! We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I only ask your help, for which I have nothing to give in return." "Nothing? You call your theory nothing" "Weigh it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we… — 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
