I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind. — 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
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
“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding.” — 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
“An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. Hidden” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is our Puritanism, insisting that discipline means repression or punishment, which confuses the subject. To discipline something, in the proper sense… — 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
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
“The body is an arrangement in spacetime, a patterning, a process; the mind is a process of the body, an organ, doing… — 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
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
“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won't move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won't move your mind unless you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can seperate us. Nothing, no distances, no years, can be greater… — 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, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“This weight of verifiable place-event-phenomenon-behavior makes the reader forget that he is reading a pure invention, a history that never took place… — 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
“As for the doctor's mind, though intelligent and certainly well-meaning, it was a jumble of intellectual artifacts even more confusing than all the gadgets, appliances, and coneniences that filled the ship. These latter Shevek found entertaining; everything was so lavish, stylish, and inventive; but the furniture of Kimoe's intellect he did not find so comfortable. Kimoe's ideas never seemed to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate… — 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 things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus." He thought it over. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. "So do we, he said. "But… — 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 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 why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced… — 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 baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now… — 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 trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and your connecting flight, or your plane is late arriving and you've missed your connection, or the connecting flight is late, or the staff of another… — 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 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
