“ His story told of the king’s daughter Cassandra, who foresaw what would happen and tried to prevent the Trojans from letting the great horse into the city, but no one would listen to her: it was a cur… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You have not thought things through, he said. By his standards it was a brutal insult. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling? No...To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify i… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Well, he said slowly, sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends in its beauty, it's what the harpers sing of and the poets make stories of: the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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
“ 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. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The people of Winter, who always live in the Year One, feel that progress is less important than presence. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The future, in fiction, is a metaphor.A metaphor for what?If I could have said it non-metaphorically, I would not have written all these words, this novel; and Genly Ai would never have sat down at my… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ She had made these with scrap wire and tools from the craft supply depot, and called them Occupations of Uninhabited Space. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ She didn't even ask me if I was going to go on flying. She knew I would. I don't understand the people who have wings and don't use them. I suppose they're interested in having a career. Maybe they we… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Pero tan inevitablemente como el futuro se convierte en pasado, el pasado se convierte en futuro. Renegar del pasado no es triunfar. Ursula K. Le Guin