“ In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Words are my matter—my stuff. Words are my skein of yarn, my lump of wet clay, my block of uncarved wood. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over abysses of chance. It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The Veksi are an angry species. Their social life consists largely of arguments, recriminations, quarrels, fights, outbursts of fury, fits of the sulks, brawls, feuds, and impulsive acts of vengeance. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely reliable unless it's dead? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was. -Hawk Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Shevek, meeting her eyes, knew that he had committed an unforgivable fault in forgetting her and, . . . Ursula K. Le Guin
“ People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogg… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Odo had not tried to renew the basic relationships of music, when she renewed the relationships of men. She had always respected the necessary. The Settlers of Anarres had left the laws of man behind… Ursula K. Le Guin
