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Tell Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the…
- Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course…
- There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
- I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . .…
- If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so…
- I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people.…
- The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his…
- What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible…
- There have been great soceties that did not use the wheel, but there have been no sociweties that did not tell stories
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