We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework… — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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