Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Love, Time, Made

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.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing, Die, Kids

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Live, Black, Makes

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Beautiful, Tired

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Women, Power, Silence

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

Fool, Human, Makes

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Music, Thinking, Before

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Good, End, Journey

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 Guin

Happiness, Time, Happy

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

Change, Women, Truth

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Far, Fill, Void

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Imagination, Doubt, Child

The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Creative, Child, Adult

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.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Great, Hope, Children

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, Liar, Everything

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Makes, Knowing

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Morning, Whether, Alarm

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Children, Revolution, Ungrateful

To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Maintain, Oppose

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Sleep, Action, Grows

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Good, Great, Free

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Become, Far, Cerebral

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

Try, Write, Personal

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.'
Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing, Living, Strange

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Write, Writer, Fiction

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 21, 1929

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