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
conformist
The more defensive a society, the more conformist.
thinking used
There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
art believe writing
Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author’s Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others.
interesting silence topics
The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.
stupid heart athlete
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.
freedom winning groups
Alone, no one wins freedom.
artist years indifference
Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life ...
paradise
Paradise is for those who make paradise.
lying men news
I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
dream cutting short-cuts
Dreams take short cuts.
desire growing desire-for-power
The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
kings men may
One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
war civilization two
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.
men intelligent matter
No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.