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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
Tagged: Novels, Books, literary, Reality, fiction
“Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, A Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tagged: Fantasy, literary, Reality
“To hear, one must be silent...”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Tagged: Hear, Hearing, Listen, Listening, Silence, Learning, comprehend
“A good writer, like a good reader, has a mind's ear...writers need to hear as they write.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
Tagged: Writing, writer, Good Writer, Being A Writer, a writer reads, Reading, good reader, Reader, Writing Advice
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
Tagged: Imagination, Poetry, Loneliness
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Dating, Keeping Your Realtionship Fresh
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Tagged: Journey, Life, Adventures
“Listening is not a reaction, it is a connection.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind
Tagged: Conversations, dialogue, talking, Human Interaction, Quote of the Moment
“Words do have power. Names have power. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind
Tagged: Communicating, Conversation, Language, What Words Do
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