Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away. — 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
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.… — 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
If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — 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
