“I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Can you walk the road your dream goes? Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to. Who is not. ...” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It goes right back to the idea of the Power of Positive Thinking, which is so strong in America because it fits… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...insofar as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to… — 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
“I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also… — 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
