The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
URSULA K. LE GUIN
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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin There are no right answers to wrong questions.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Success is somebody else’s failure.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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