“He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“the longer he lived on Urras, the less real it became to him. It seemed” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Wold felt sorry for him, as he often did for young men, who have not seen how passion and plan over and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast… The hand that shapes the mind… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He was never rash or hurried, but he was always read. It was the secret, no doubt, of the extraordinary political career… — 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
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
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
“. . . 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
