Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guinis an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 October 1929
CountryUnited States of America
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes about
kings divine-right capitalism
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
growing-up children eggplant
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
evil soul ged
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
writing thinking way
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
beautiful wisdom jobs
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
running blood poison
Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
beautiful eye dark
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.
law anarchy thieves
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
dark night thinking
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
space deeds may
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.
writing stories plot
The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
loneliness solitude persons
See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
artist doe fiction
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
great-ones oneself rare-things
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.