“Actually, I don’t exactly have expectations. I have hopes, and fears.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Wold felt sorry for him, as he often did for young men, who have not seen how passion and plan over and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of?" She… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Never fear. It is much easier for men to act than to refrain from acting. We will continue to do good and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Let me ask you this, Mr. Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?” “No,” I said, shaken by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid of life! There are times I--I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I wonder if it isn't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Why are men afraid of women?" "If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear," Ged said. "Yes; but… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Page 15, paperback version by Virago Press 1997: ... Let me ask you this, Mr Ai: do you know, by your own… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Not Afraid. I knew you were a person who ... wouldn't be forced.... Well, yes, I was afraid. I was afraid of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.” He makes fear serve him. I would have let fear lead me around by the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though 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
