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
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
book invention mankind
By and large books are mankind's best invention.
light darkness sunlight
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
mean soul care
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.
life forever lovers
The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
reality talking fantasy
Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.
half use whole
I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
happiness time mean
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.
somewhere-else goal different
To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
remember statesmen
Statesmen remember things selectively.
power achievement growth
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
beautiful letting-go writing
Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.