A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they… — 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
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're… — 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
