When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It had never occured to me that thinking and music are so much alike. In fact, you can say music is another… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an… — 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
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and… — 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
Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about… — 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
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
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be… — 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
The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not… — 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
