“I'm afraid of life! There are times I--I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I wonder if it isn't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“So, looking back on the last four years, Shevek saw them not as wasted, but as part of the edifice that he… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the… — 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
“In bed, they made love. Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment,… — 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
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies... — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed, I am not sure whose story it is; you can… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This has been going on for two or three millennia. That is an amazingly long time for anything to mean anything to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I tried to think about what he had asked me to do, to step so far beyond myself. I found it difficult… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He had no answer. He had no right to all the grace and bounty of this world, earned and maintained by the… — 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
