“Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Heaven and earth begin in the unnamed: name’s the mother of the ten thousand things.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Words are my matter—my stuff. Words are my skein of yarn, my lump of wet clay, my block of uncarved wood.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do. — 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… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“ 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Does it ever occur to such reviewers that the meaning of the story might lie in the language itself, in the movement… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse;… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's… — 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
“Whatever language we speak, before we begin a sentence we have an almost infinite choice of words to use. A, The, They,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Then suddenly he was aware of a man clothed in white who watched him through the falling water of the fountain. As… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words. — 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
