I have learned how I work best, and that is something that, if you're going to be a professional writer, you should be noticing: under what circumstances you work at your best, and to not get yourself...
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.
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.
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.
O. It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. And the people aren’t beautiful. They have big hands and feet, like me and the...
Words are my matter—my stuff. Words are my skein of yarn, my lump of wet clay, my block of uncarved wood.
Why are men afraid of women?If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear, Ged said.Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.Are they ever taught to...
What it made me think about above all is how incredibly much we learn from our birthday to last day - from where the horsies live to the origin of the stars. How rich we are in knowledge, and in all t...
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or i...
Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity.
They exist. But they are not your Masters. They never were. You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free.
They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.
There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.
Shevek, meeting her eyes, knew that he had committed an unforgivable fault in forgetting her and, . . .
Pregnant women have no ethics.
Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.
Opinion all too often leaves no room for anything but itself.
My lord, do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. There