It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman?… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came… — 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
A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — 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
