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
tasks done hard
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
telling-the-truth distrust
Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
rejection void fantasy
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
dream writing used
When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
somewhere-else goal different
To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
machines
The machine conceals the machinations.
fancy myth saved
Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.
kings men thinking
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
airports people soul
In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.
dream eye mind
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
cities doe walks
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
kings belief nationalism
Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
dragons hunger hard
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
greed sun
Greed puts out the sun.