The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability.
Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. Do you see that? I do what I must do. Where I go, I must go alone. So long as you need me, I’ll be wi...
Solitude was his fate; he was trapped in his heredity.
Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi is a repetitive genre written by unima...
Pois eu tinha me esquecido de tanta luz que há no mundo, até você devolvê-la a mim.
Orr’s gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience. Yet
My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.
Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it.The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as literature and another as genre vanishes with the distinction.Every r...
It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
I always grow poetic when I am lying to myself.
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
Do the people in this country approve of this war? [...].Approve? You don't think we'd lie down and let the damned Thuvians walk all over us? Our status as a world power is at stake!But I mean the peo...
When we know that it's a planet just like this one, only with a better climate and worse people--when we know they're all propertarians, and fight wars, and make laws, and eat while other starve, and...
Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.
Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very...
To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here all roads lead to Mishnory. To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulg...