The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
URSULA K. LE GUINIf a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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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.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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