One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies... — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What a comfort the past is," Mimen said, "when the future offers none.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the… — 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
Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while.… — 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
“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
“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
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“She laughed again, and she looked at me. Just for a moment. But she looked, she saw. She wasn't looking at me… — 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
“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
Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time… — 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
“Fulfillment, Shevek thought, is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal, The variety seeking of the spectator,… — 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
“Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift,… — 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
After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast… The hand that shapes the mind… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The future, in fiction, is a metaphor. A metaphor for what? If I could have said it non-metaphorically, I would not have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The art of one's own time tends to be formidable . . . because we have to learn how and where to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way… — 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
“You won’t be running marathons and lifting weights. You may have trouble getting up the stairs. You may have trouble just getting… — 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
A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Alas, I had no power, at that time, to combat the flat refusal of many cover departments to put people of color… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
“. . . 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
