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
classes glad living strange teach telling
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
further hope reached since
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
blueprints expect guess guidance novels offer
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.
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.
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.
motivational graduation travel
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
responsibility choices anarchist
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
odds two limits
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
law-of-attraction
To oppose something is to maintain it.
dysfunction arise function
Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?
anarchist forgotten century
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
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.
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.