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
sex dirty doe
It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
prose
Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.
betrayal names voice
If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.
book writing men
After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.
suicide children taken
No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
character reality two
What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.
real men thinking
The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.
choices-made survival favors
A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
groups common sinister
Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.
writing stories want
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
people trying fiction
Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.
responsibility enemy blame
You cannot blame everything on the enemy.
country hate what-is-love
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.
art sex enemy
Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.