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
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?
writing mean kids
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it.
use share ifs
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
peace asking-questions questions-and-answers
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
writing long paper
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.
anarchist forgotten century
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
life hurt two
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
drama writing character
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and its people have to be created by the storyteller. If there's nothing in it but disembodied voices, too much is missing.
grieving wife forever
But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.
travel son ships
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.
rocks fog sides
And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.
saying-goodbye forever mortals
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.