Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ursula K. Le Guin on Wise Famous Quotes.
Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
It was the idea of writing with a specific audience in mind or a specific age of reader that scared me off.
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 sons are born in exile.
A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither.
Privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's arm whispered to him his true name: Ged.
It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect.
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate.
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
Hector had no virtue?" "Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one." "We all do," Aeneas remarked.
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
I lied. I lied. I lied. I lied deliberately, knowingly, well. She lied. She is a liar. She is an intellectual too! She is a lie. And a coward, afraid.
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
The imagination is an essential tool of the mind, a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human. We
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
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.
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you.
There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced.
I didn't know you well at all. Only, when you spoke, I seemed to see clear into you, into the center.
We weren't cruel, we were ignorant, foolish. Children are ignorant and foolish. But they learn. If they are given a chance to learn.