“Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did not deliberately invent Earthsea, I did not think ‘Hey wow — islands are archetypes and archipelagoes are superarchetypes and let’s… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in… — 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
“As a boy, Ogion like all boys had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art-magic whatever shape… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“[Arren] was proud of his lineage, but thought of himself as an heir of princes, one of the House of Enlad. Morred,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he… — 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
