“Actually, I don’t exactly have expectations. I have hopes, and fears.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation:… — 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
“...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
