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
wheels sometimes turns
Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.
body poison excess
Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
argument infinite
Infinite are the arguments of mages,
stars forever darkness
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
nine mastery time-patience
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience
dark two glowing
Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
children real two
My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie's Choice. A daring tour de force.
numbers limits plot
There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.
book contentment amazon
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
life-is
They can send death at once, but life is slower...
artist scientist behinds
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
two kind universal
There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.
stars children distance
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.
silent
To hear, one must be silent.