The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. — 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
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. — 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 room smelled of books, that subtle smell which to some is stuffy and to others intoxicating, and it was silent.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“KEEP READING books and seeing movies where nobody can fucking say anything except fuck, unless they say shit.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“THINKING about Homer, and it occurred to me that his two books are the two basic fantasy stories: the War and the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“She told Everra that he had given her and Sallo the soul's hunger for books and thoughts, and must not deprive them… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices...… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Alas, I had no power, at that time, to combat the flat refusal of many cover departments to put people of color… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never… — 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
“Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I know who you are," she said. "You're my enemy. The true believer. The righteous man with the righteous mission. The one… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“. . . 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong…” quote by Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bfb/ursula-k-le-guin-138_books_t-he-only-means-i-have-to-stop-ignorant_1813191.jpg)
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