Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. — 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
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there . — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. — 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
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
A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together… — 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
As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then… — 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
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — 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
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going… — 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
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
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
“Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — 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
