Knows Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!

— Ursula K. Le Guin

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin