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 fiction granted
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.
empathy fiction world
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
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.
fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
stories world fiction
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
writing doors fiction
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.
thinking fiction definitions
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
writing fiction preacher
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
doe fiction knows
One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.
writing technology fiction
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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.
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.
freedom responsibility absolute-freedom
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
basically breaks constructs custom male order power rule values women
To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.