Thinking Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our…

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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

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

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

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

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to…

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Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,…

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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

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