“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The life of every man is in the Center of Time, for all were seen in the seeing of Meshe, and are… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane – bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The body is an arrangement in spacetime, a patterning, a process; the mind is a process of the body, an organ, doing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is… — 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
Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non existence, it amounts to much the same, on the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ... Instead of seeing birth as an awakening from blank nonbeing and fetal… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer…The only thing that makes life… — 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
“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
“My race is very old," Ketho said. "We have been civilized for a thousand millenia. We have histories of hundreds of those… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. When I was young, I had to choose between the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and… — 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
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