A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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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.
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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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