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
strong spring light
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
positive real past
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
dragons people deny
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
writing library stories
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
regret sunset wind
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
life business future
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
funny depression crazy
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
matter asking-yourself-questions questioning
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
revolution mindfulness spirit
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
music thinking way
Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
dragons one-thing
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
hoarding owing
Owning is owing, having is hoarding.
fog prose-and-poetry wire
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.
suicide taken kids
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.