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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“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
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Tagged: Meaning of True Love, Truth About Love
“In order to write a story, you have to trust yourself, you have to trust the story, and you have to trust the reader.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind
Tagged: Writing
“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
“Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind
Tagged: speed, Not Paying Attention
“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. Then you have to be able to let it tell itself.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind
Tagged: fiction, How To Write Fiction
“Getting old can be worth the trouble if it gives you time to do some soul making.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind
Tagged: Aging, Getting Older
“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
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Tagged: Future, unknown, Uncertainty, Life
“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
“And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Tagged: How To Think, Commencement Speeches, Darkness Breeds The Miracle, Darkest Before The Dawn, Resilience, Perserverence, Method
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