“spare time is the time not spent at your job or at otherwise keeping yourself” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — 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
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
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long,… — 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
“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
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
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
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
“He saw time turn back upon itself, a river flowing upward to the spring. He held the contemporaneity of two moments in… — 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
“They made love. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time,… — 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
“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
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
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
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