The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt… — 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
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken… — 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
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you… — 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
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
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
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
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me… — 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
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and… — 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
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in… — 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
![“Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and…” quote by Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ccc/ursula-k-le-guin-138_actors_do-remember-though-that-unless-you-re-a_2836249.jpg)
