Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been. — 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 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
After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman?… — 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
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on… — 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
