“I didn't know you well at all. Only, when you spoke, I seemed to see clear into you, into the center.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They made love. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Let me ask you this, Mr. Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?” “No,” I said, shaken by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I found out I was in love with you, winter before last," she said. "I wasn't going to say anything about it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. — 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
“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. Now,” — 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 wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“She didn't even ask me if I was going to go on flying. She knew I would. I don't understand the people… — 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
