Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

“There are souls whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.” Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘The Dispossessed’

“I guess I’ve always had a kind of long-term hope and short-term terror.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

Trevor Chappel interviews Ursula K. Le Guin’s biographer Julie Phillips abc.net.au/radio/programs…

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“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

“Lost things are known of in deep places, and gold that came from the earth has a way of going back to the earth. And sometimes the made, they say, returns to the maker.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘Semley’s Necklace’ (The Real and the Unreal Vol II)

“Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?” - Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘Lavinia’

‘Steering the Craft’ by Ursula K. Le Guin

"We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a market commodity and the practice of an art." - Ursula K. Le Guin, 2014 (National Book Award Speech)

"I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope."

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’

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‘A Wizard of Earthsea’ - Ursula K. Le Guin

“If a world is dreamable, maybe it can be dreamed into being.” - David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), in @WorldsofUKL

“Film is a visual medium, but that doesn’t mean it all has to take place on the surface of your eyeballs. It can move right inside your head and be where it belongs, in the place where the dreams come from.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘The Dispossessed’

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