Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then… — 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
