Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation:… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...The duty of the individual is to accept No rule, t be the intitiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only… — 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
