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
writing noise done
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.
children compassion grieving
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
running writing blood
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
writing down-and
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
writing giving mind
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.
loss thinking voice
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
kids writing simple
Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.
dark hands
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
stress skills darkness
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
writing thinking names
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
home joy suffering
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
children real book
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
thinking people injustice
The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.
dysfunction arise function
Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?