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
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.
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.
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.
equality different kind
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself
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.
quiet-voice despair speak
Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.