Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
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"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone it has to be made like bread remade all the time made new."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Sun Going South In late sunshine I wander troubled. Restless I wander in autumn sunlight. Too many changes, partings, and deaths. Doors have closed that were always open. Trees that held the sky up are cut down. So much that I alone remember!This creek runs dry among its stones. Souls of the dead, come drink this water!Come into this side valley with me,a restless old woman, unseemly,troubled, walking on dry grass, dry stones."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."
Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness
"“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”"
Ursula K. Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven
"You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?"
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Age and illness made one a dualist"
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"It could be a thousand things, distractions, worries;but very often I think what keeps a writer from finding the words is that she grasps at them too soon, hurries, grabs. She doesn’t wait for the wave to come in and break. She wants to write because she’s a writer; she wants to say this, and tell people that, and show people something else — things she knows, her ideas, her opinions, her beliefs, important things — but she doesn’t wait for the wave to come and carry her beyond all the ideas and opinions, to where you cannot use the wrong word."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"I have learned how I work best, and that is something that, if you're going to be a professional writer, you should be noticing: under what circumstances you work at your best, and to not get yourself cornered into writing in a way that doesn't let you do your best."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write."
Ursula K. Le Guin
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