You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone. — 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
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A voice in the darkness said, ‘You have come too far.’ Arren answered it, saying, ‘Only too far is far enough.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I know that many men and even women are afraid and angry when women do speak, because in this barbaric society, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to… — 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
