Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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 only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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 creative adult is the child who survived. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair. – Ursula K. Le Guin

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. – Ursula K. Le Guin

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. – Ursula K. Le Guin

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. – Ursula K. Le Guin

I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom – Ursula K. Le Guin

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes part 2

The creative adult is the child who has survived. – Ursula K. Le Guin

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. – Ursula K. Le Guin

There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. – Ursula K. Le Guin

Words are events; they do things, change things. – Ursula K. Le Guin

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. – Ursula K. Le Guin

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. – Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! – Ursula K. Le Guin

The artist, or the writer of fiction, ‘invents’ the thing he or she sees in order to see it clearly. – Ursula K. Le Guin

The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Do not bet on freedom, it is fragile like us. – Ursula K. Le Guin

To light a candle is to cast a shadow. – Ursula K. Le Guin

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. – Ursula K. Le Guin

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. – Ursula K. Le Guin

If you see a whole thing — it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives…. But close up 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

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

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. – Ursula K. Le Guin

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. – Ursula K. Le Guin

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. – Ursula K. Le Guin

The incomprehensible is the essence of the universe. – Ursula K. Le Guin

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. – Ursula K. Le Guin

To light a candle is to cast a shadow. – Ursula K. Le Guin

The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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 wise man trusts in illusions. – Ursula K. Le Guin

Do not bet on freedom, it is fragile like us. – Ursula K. Le Guin

The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken. – Ursula K. Le Guin

There is always more than we see of any one thing. But never less. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The best writing about sex is almost always done by those who think it’s not very important. – Ursula K. Le Guin

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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