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
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.
brain doe stimulation
What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
sorry wish faces
Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.
real war thinking
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.
real dragons insanity
Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
dragons fantasy myth
The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?