Devices Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image “Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devices Fantasy Imagination Literary devices Reality Talking
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. — Katharine Kerr Copy Share Image
Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power,… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest… — Patricia A. McKillip 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
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses… — Tom A. Watson Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
