“ And she told me the same thing, she said that when I came back in the winter, she was going to miss missing me.... Ursula K. Le Guin
“ And here’s an example of deliberate violation of a Fake Rule: Fake Rule: The generic pronoun in English is he. Violation: Each one in turn reads their piece aloud. This is wrong, say the grammar b… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ An enemy, in Karhide, is not a stranger, an invader. The stranger who comes unknown is a guest. Your enemy is your neighbor. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetype… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The entity of twenty-five, where it was warmest. We did not struggle for the warm place, we simply were in it each night. It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible,… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Stepped out of the tent on to nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside me, but neither he nor I cast any shadow. There was dull light all around, everywhere. When he walked on the cr… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You see, I don’t write the way I was trained to write at the conservatory. I write dysfunctional music. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You don’t see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling? No— To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. I Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Women are a very recent invention. I predate the invention of women by decades. Well, if you insist on pedantic accuracy, women have been invented several times in widely varying localities, but the i… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Where, then, is Truth? declaimed Bedap, and yawned. In the hill one happens to be sitting on, said Tirin. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin? From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else? Ursula K. Le Guin
