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![Ursula Le Guin Quotes By Ursula K. Le Guin: The habit of literature [is] the best defense](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/ursula-le-guin-quotes-by-ursula-k-le-guin-359906.jpg "Ursula Le Guin Quotes By Ursula K. Le Guin: The habit of literature [is] the best defense")
The habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To deny the past is to deny the future.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A grating sound came from the dragon's throat . . . "You offer me safety! You threaten me! With what?""With your name, Yevaud. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
And she told me the same thing, she said that when I came back in the winter, she was going to miss missing me ...
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There is no kingdom like the forests.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There must be darkness to see the stars.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A man gives out, dearie. A woman takes in.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The old farfetchers' motto: Opinion ends reception.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
We strike a medium, and he shivers in his bag, while I swelter in mine, but considering from what distances we have come together, we do well enough.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
First sentences are doors to worlds.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community; and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness. It's everybody's place".
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
THE DOMESTICATION OF HUNCH
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Facts are no more slid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. Bot both are sensitive.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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
My enemies must nominate themselves; I have no interest at all in making, finding, or knowing them.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Go to bed; tired is stupid.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The only emotion I felt was shame. For him, for myself. Again I had trusted, and again I had betrayed and been betrayed. Venne
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The sleeper turns his back on everyone.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Grain grows best in shit...
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
So many of his problems were of a kind that other people did not understand, that he got used to working them out for himself, in silence.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Ronde, one a live village and the other deserted, as dead as Karnak,
— Ursula K. Le Guin
If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?""You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely reliable unless it's dead?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
'They eat their kind,' he said, 'Like men.'
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I'll die, you'll die; how could we love each other otherwise? The sun's going to burn out, what else keeps it shining?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There's no right answerto the wrong question.
Now what do we do? — Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
True understanding is the spur of genius
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Then I saw ... you see ... I saw that you can't do anything for anybody. We can't save each other. Or ourselves.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
He gave way to the fear that had come with her, the sense of the breaking of promises, the incoherence of Time. He broke.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't know which I should fear more ... death or life. I wish I could be done with fear.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
In war everybody is a prisoner.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally, and carefullyas the rock is part of the whole unconsciously. — Ursula K. Le Guin
What is more arrogant than honesty?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A lot of snow out of one cloud, and it grows thicker.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do - they never adapt either.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Sure, it's simple writing for kids ... just as simple as bringing them up.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The room smelled of books, that subtle smell which to some is stuffy and to others intoxicating, and it was silent.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Fish and visitors stink after three days.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect....
— Ursula K. Le Guin
For to keep dark the mind of the mageborn, that is a dangerous thing.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don't want to live in yours.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world. Only
— Ursula K. Le Guin
If you play against your own side you'll lose the whole game.
— Ursula K. Le Guin