“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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 Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Little children are stoical. They cry over bumps, but they take the big things as they come, they don't whine like so many adults. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Later, when Ged thought back upon that night, he knew that had none touched him when he lay thus spirit-lost, had none called him back in some way, he might have been lost for good. It was only the du… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It was the idea of writing with a specific audience in mind or a specific age of reader that scared me off. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every world of it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion... But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I wish we could stop using the word belief in matters of fact, leaving it where it belongs, in matters of religious faith and secular hope. I believe we'd avoid a lot of unnecessary pain if we did so. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I talk about gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I know who you are, she said. You're my enemy. The true believer. The righteous man with the righteous mission. The one that jails people for reading and burns the books. That persecutes people who do… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I had ignored that black cellar and gone looking for the substance of Orgoreyn aboveground, in daylight. No wonder nothing had seemed real. I Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I am without a face among men. I am not seen. I speak and am not heard. I come and am not welcomed. There is no place by the fire for me, nor food on the table for me, nor a bed made for me to lie in.… Ursula K. Le Guin
