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.
Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, w...
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes.
There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.
The unconscious mind is coextensive with the universe.
The people of Winter, who always live in the Year One, feel that progress is less important than presence.
The heavy black she had worn for years was gone; her dress was of turquoise-colored silk, bright and soft as the evening sky. It belled out full from her hips, and all the skirt was embroidered with t...
The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
Take care, Tenar, he said.
Since he was very young he had known that in certain ways he was unlike anyone else he knew. For a child the consciousness of such difference is very painful, since, having done nothing yet and being...
Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying. The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be...
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Opinion all too often leaves no room for anything but itself.
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. —The Creation of Éa
No-mind is an evil place for mind to stay.
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No entendían que uno tiene que ponerse del lado de los ganadores, o perder. Y es el hombre el que gana, siempre. El viejo conquistador.