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Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Books category:
By and large books are mankind's best invention. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Books category:
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Children category:
The creative adult is the child who has survived. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Eccentricity category:
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Exhaustion category:
If you see a whole thing, it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Gender category:
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Hope category:
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, compassion and hope. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Imagination category:
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Imagination category:
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Information category:
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Journey category:
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Joy category:
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Light category:
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Light category:
To light a candle is to cast a shadow. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Love category:
Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Music category:
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Questions category:
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Questions category:
There are no right answers to wrong questions. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Religion category:
The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant... and how to feel one's true identity in both. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Routine category:
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Seeing category:
If you see a whole thing – it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Silence category:
To hear, one must be silent. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Technology category:
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Unknowns category:
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Words category:
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Ursula K. LeGuin - From the Writing category:
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. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
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