I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What a comfort the past is," Mimen said, "when the future offers none.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies... — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This has been going on for two or three millennia. That is an amazingly long time for anything to mean anything to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the… — 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
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You won’t be running marathons and lifting weights. You may have trouble getting up the stairs. You may have trouble just getting… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed, I am not sure whose story it is; you can… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid of life! There are times I--I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I wonder if it isn't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over… — 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
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Fulfillment, Shevek thought, is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal, The variety seeking of the spectator,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and… — 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
“As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future -… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He had no answer. He had no right to all the grace and bounty of this world, earned and maintained by the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — 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
