“..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
“And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The life of every man is in the Center of Time, for all were seen in the seeing of Meshe, and are… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Writing about our life in the House of Arcamand in the City State of Etra, I fall back into it and see… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non existence, it amounts to much the same, on the… — 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 up, a world's all… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living… — 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
“We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand outside things and run them, that way. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. — 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
“One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?' ...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there… — 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
“We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over… — 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
“It exists,” Shevek said, spreading out his hands. “It’s real. I can call it a misunderstanding, but I can’t pretend that it… — 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
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
Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence. — 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
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be… — 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
