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
“She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and… — 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
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Since he was very young he had known that in certain ways he was unlike anyone else he knew. For a child… — 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
“He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be… — 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
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
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I suppose the Valley of the Na, in Always Coming Home, is where I think I'd most like to live; but that's… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do… — 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
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting… — 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
