Writers Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

9 Writers quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s imagination stretched far beyond fantasy, and here she turns her focus inward. These nine lines give a concise look at how she viewed the writer’s responsibility to both craft and conscience.

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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

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Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

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“Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build…

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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their…

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Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to…

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“Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into…

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Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this…

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“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little…

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Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the…

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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…

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“The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.”

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Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

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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.

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“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the…

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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

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“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.”

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“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?”

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