Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 21, 1929

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

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. Le Guin

To oppose something is to maintain it.

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There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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