"Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the……" — Ursula K. Le Guin
"Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater."
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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344 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve…
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts…
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is…
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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it…
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
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Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite…
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want…
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