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Ursula K. Le Guin
American
Writer
About the author
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Technology
#Science
#Fiction
#Myth
#Mythology
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Imagination
#Doubt
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Eye
#Dreams
#Mind
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Reading
#Wood
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Action
#Information
#Sleep
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#World
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Mountains
#Experience
#Truth
#Change
#Women
To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Light
#Shadow
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Right
#Wrong
#Questions
#Answers
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Life
#Uncertainty
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Questions
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
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,
American
Writer
#World
#Imagination
#Fool
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,
American
Writer
#Time
#Love
Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Time
#Love
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#End
#Journey
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Hope
#Imagination
#Perception
#Compassion
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Thinking
#Music
#Fact
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Hope
#Development
#Inventions
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Want
#Kids
#Writing
#Suicide
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American
Writer
#Life
#Day
#World
#Job