Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
American Writer
Born: Oct 21, 1929
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. Ursula K. Le Guin
Life Not Knowing Intolerable Possible Only Uncertainty Knowing Makes Permanent The Only Thing Next Thing
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
Truth Change Women Experience Mountains Our New Offer Human Maps
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 Atheist Liar I Am Too Everything Say Telling Telling The Truth Distrust About Talk Am Gods Artist Therefore
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 Journey Matters Toward End In The End
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. Ursula K. Le Guin
Maturity Believe I Believe I Believe That Adult Dead Up Survived Child Who Growing Growing Up
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. Ursula K. Le Guin
Hope Achieve Compassion Perception Imagination Above
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
Hope Great Achieve Compassion Perception Imagination Above Know Said Scientists Children
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 Sit Remade New Like Stone Just Bread
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K. Le Guin
Crazy World Live Could Person Sane
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 Me You Before Thinking Way Say Alike Kind Fact Could Never Had Another Another Way Occurred Maybe In Fact Much
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
Me Fool World Imagination All The World Gives Makes Human
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 Baby Out Point Good Teachers Roads Make Artists Them Teachers Companions Rides
There are no right answers to wrong questions. Ursula K. Le Guin
Wrong Answers Questions Right
To oppose something is to maintain it. Ursula K. Le Guin
Oppose Something Maintain
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. Ursula K. Le Guin
Words Medium Says Does Said Deals Artist Fiction Cannot Novelist Whose
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 You Happy Joy Earn Recognize Given Only Often Mean Certainly Reason Even Keep Thing
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Ursula K. Le Guin
Technology Science Myth Mythology Science Fiction Tragic Modern Fiction Modern Technology Then
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
Black Reading Live Marks Unread Reader Makes Wood Story Little Thing Pulp
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
You Writing Seriously Suicide Approve Kids Marry Above Taken Die Commit Want Your
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. Ursula K. Le Guin
Grateful Be Grateful Revolution Ungrateful Must Always Children
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. Ursula K. Le Guin
Guidance Reading Action Guess Moral Some Lot Offer Expect Get Novels Ever
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.' Ursula K. Le Guin
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. Ursula K. Le Guin
Become Too He Intelligent Far Cerebral Really
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. Ursula K. Le Guin
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