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
hate mind doe
Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.
artist doe fiction
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
doe morality function
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.
art real doe
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.
light shadow doe
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
healing doe seeming
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
doe fiction knows
One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.
cities doe walks
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
soul doe hell
Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
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.
sea want doe
If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.
sex dirty doe
It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
brain doe stimulation
What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
stories may helping
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.