Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

American - Writer | October 21, 1929 -

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

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To oppose something is to maintain it.

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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

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I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

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