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
gratitude grateful dark
To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!
fall sunset autumn
I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?
reality what-is-life
What is life without incompatible realities?
healing doe seeming
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
law evolution strongest
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.
happiness luxury etc
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc
real healing thinking
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
want ged clarity
She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.
beer sea soul
My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
grief good-day grieving
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.
writing trying showing-up
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
life love-you years
What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.
evil littles innocence
In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.
understanding mentor genius
True understanding is the spur of genius