THINKING about Homer, and it occurred to me that his two books are the two basic fantasy stories: the War and the Journey.
Sometimes a god comes, Selver said. He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time...
She said it seemed like the only choices offered were to want to be what other people were, or to be what other people wanted you to be.
Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corpor...
Please bring strange things.Please come bringing new things.Let very old things come into your hands.Let what you do not know come into your eyes.Let desert sand harden your feet.Let the arch of your...
Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honest...
One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. Back
On the dock Yarrow stood and watched them go, as sailors’ wives and sisters stand on all the shores of all Earthsea watching their men go out on the sea, and they do not wave or call aloud, but stand...
My use of their is socially motivated and, if you like, politically correct: a deliberate response to the socially and politically significant banning of our genderless pronoun by language legislators...
Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science. The meaning of the second law of thermodynamics, so long as the words are understood, isn’t changed by who reads it, or when, or where. The meaning...
Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose.
Kırbaçlarını, para ve yolculuk hakkı için kürekçilik yapanların sırtına hiç indirmiyorlardı, ama kimisi kırbaçlanan, kimisi de kırbaçlanmayan bir mürettebat arasında pek arkadaşlık ortamı oluşturulama...
Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.
It's your nature to be Tirin, and my nature to be Shevek, and our common nature to be Odonians, responsible to one another. And that responsibility is our freedom. To avoid it, would be to lose our fr...
It's not death that allows us to understand one another, but poetry.
It was the most beautiful view Shevek had ever seen. The tenderness and vitality of the colors, the mixture of rectilinear human design and powerful, proliferate natural contours, the variety and harm...
In trouble and from darkness you come, Ged, yet your coming is joy to me.
If you can see a thing whole, he said, it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives. . . . But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you loos...
If you can see a thing whole, it seems that it's always beautiful. Planet,lives...But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. Yo...
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?Hah! went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, Haven't there been queens?...