“The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They preserved autonomy of conscience even at the cost of becoming eccentric.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Writing about our life in the House of Arcamand in the City State of Etra, I fall back into it and see… — 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
“I only ask your help, for which I have nothing to give in return." "Nothing? You call your theory nothing" "Weigh it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“So he worked. He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labor, lack of variety of occupation, lack… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that… — 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
“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It's your nature to be Tirin, and my nature to be Shevek, and our common nature to be Odonians, responsible to one… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the… — 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
as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I think… most women marry to get their freedom." "Then they want less than I do. There’s something inside me, in my… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid… — 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
