“If you can see a thing whole, it seems that it's always beautiful. Planet,lives...But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks.… — 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… — 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
“...insofar as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the… — 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
“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
“In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane – bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there,… — 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
The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from,… — 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
“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
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief… — 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
“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
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at… — 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
“But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s… — 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
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. — 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
