Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All you have to do to see life whole is to see it as mortal. I'll die, you'll die; how could we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“..all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That's the pleasure, and the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There was something lacking – in him, he thought, not in the place. He was not up to it. He was not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There was no more room in the world for whole people, they took up too much space. What she had done to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The reality of our life is in love, in solidarity,” said a tall, soft-eyed girl. “Love is the true condition of human… — 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
“Our daily life in the auntring was repetitive. On the ship, later, I learned that people who live in artificially complicated situations… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid of life! There are times I--I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I wonder if it isn't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If you can see a thing whole," he said, "it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives. . . . But close… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We didn't talk about problems, or parents, or automobiles, or ambitions. We talked about life…And the sea was there, forty feet away… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you.… — 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
