“Actually, I don’t exactly have expectations. I have hopes, and fears.” — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“...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
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
“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
“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
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
“. . . 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
