Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done.… — 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
