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Le Guin's Rule: One person cannot do two fulltime jobs, but two persons can do three fulltime jobs - if they honestly share the work.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A grating sound came from the dragon's throat . . . "You offer me safety! You threaten me! With what?""With your name, Yevaud. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things. — Ursula K. Le Guin
To go under a river: there's a strange thing to do, a really weird idea.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
..he says, but that's wizard's talk, making things seem great by great words.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It isn't changing around from place to place that keeps you lively. It's getting time on your side. Working with it, not against it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I've been looking only at what's to be done next and forgetting why we're doing it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Where there's property, there's theft.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
As a man's knowledge grows, and his power increases, the road he takes grows ever narrower, until at last he does only and wholly what he must.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Success is somebody else's failure.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
At the pit's bottom is no anger.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is. — Ursula K. Le Guin
By and large books are mankind's best invention.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The novelist's business is lying.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Then Ged pitied her. She was like a white deer caged, like a white bird wing-clipped, like a silver ring in an old man's finger.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Man's singularity is his divinity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game ... speak the truth and hear the truth.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The story is the way the story is told. Adam's
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It's a queer business, making oneself blind.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
it is strange, exceedingly strange, to know that one's life has been fulfilled. Yet
— Ursula K. Le Guin
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
History is not a science, it's an art.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's arm whispered to him his true name: Ged.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
When you have nothing to pray for, that's when Luck hears you. If
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There's nothing wrong with me ... except acute chronic fear.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
As a man's knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholely what he must do.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?""You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely reliable unless it's dead?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
'They eat their kind,' he said, 'Like men.'
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I'll die, you'll die; how could we love each other otherwise? The sun's going to burn out, what else keeps it shining?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
— Ursula 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 Guin
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There's no right answerto the wrong question.
Now what do we do? — Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
True understanding is the spur of genius
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Then I saw ... you see ... I saw that you can't do anything for anybody. We can't save each other. Or ourselves.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
He gave way to the fear that had come with her, the sense of the breaking of promises, the incoherence of Time. He broke.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally, and carefullyas the rock is part of the whole unconsciously. — Ursula K. Le Guin
George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Orr's gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There's no way to use power for good.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community; and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness. It's everybody's place".
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Sure, it's simple writing for kids ... just as simple as bringing them up.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't know which I should fear more ... death or life. I wish I could be done with fear.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Fish and visitors stink after three days.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect....
— Ursula K. Le Guin
For to keep dark the mind of the mageborn, that is a dangerous thing.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don't want to live in yours.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world. Only
— Ursula K. Le Guin
If you play against your own side you'll lose the whole game.
— Ursula K. Le Guin