We read books to find out who we are.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
URSULA K. LE GUIN
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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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.
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