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
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
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Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
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See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
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To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.