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
writing practice voice
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
drama writing character
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and its people have to be created by the storyteller. If there's nothing in it but disembodied voices, too much is missing.
latin language easy
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
writing fiction preacher
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
depressing logical extremes
Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
decision moral modern
Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.
writing soul share
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
ocean humility glimpse
All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.
women order law
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
rejection void fantasy
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
men doors might
But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.
wheels sometimes turns
Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.
argument infinite
Infinite are the arguments of mages,
stars forever darkness
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.