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
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.
animal machines intention
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
light-years looks term
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.
eye men miracle
A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.
wind-blowing doe purpose
Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
writing virginia law
There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.