“ The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it w… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ No need to try to find it, said Unroy. The sacredness is there. In thetruth, the pain, the beauty. So that the telling of it is sacred. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ No matter how humble the spirit it’s offered in, a sermon is an act of aggression. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom...and that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, when they need it, and that's always. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of hu… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If the foreman had no experience in bossing a mob, they had no experience in being one. Members of a community, not elements of a collectivity, they were not moved by mass feeling; there were as many… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic… 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
“ 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
“ But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point whe… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he do.... Ursula K. Le Guin
“ And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write. Books are… Ursula K. Le Guin
