“ Bir insanın yeniden doğabilmesi için, ölmesi gerekir Tenar. O taraftan görüldüğü kadar zor bir şey değil bu. Ged Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains... and so… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ As they say in Ekumenical School, when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. I was not sleepy, yet. I would go east to the Fastnesses, and gather i… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature we may not be seeking mere reassurance nor be impelled by mere… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ And not only narrativity but the quality of the writing is of the first importance to me. Rightly or not, I believe a dull, inept style signals poverty or incompleteness of thought. I see the accuracy… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of wearine… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other peopl… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apartfrom older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors, drawn fromcertain great dominants of our contemporary life --… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Alas, I had no power, at that time, to combat the flat refusal of many cover departments to put people of color on a book jacket. So, through many later, lily-white Geds, Ruth Robbins’s painting for t… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A grating sound came from the dragon's throat . . . You offer me safety! You threaten me! With what?With your name, Yevaud. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A friend. What is a friend, in a world where any friend may be a lover at a new phase of the moon? Not I, locked in my virility: no friend to Therem Harth, or any other of his race. Neither man nor wo… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Όπως βλέπεις, Άρεν, μια πράξη δεν είναι, όπως συχνά νομίζουν οι νέοι, σαν μια πέτρα, που κάποιος σηκώνει και πετάει, και πετυχαίνει ή αστοχεί, κι αυτό είναι όλο. Όταν σηκώνεις αυτή την πέτρα, η γη γίν… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Έχε γεια, φτωχέ μου, εύπιστε ανόητε! Θα πεις την αλήθεια και η αλήθεια θα σε ελευθερώσει. Αλλά μπορεί και όχι, εξαρτάται από την περίπτωση. Πήγαινε μόνος, αγαπητέ μου ηλίθιε- είναι ο καλύτερος τρόπος… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You’re not a traitor, you’ve merely been the tool of one. I don’t punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The good cat with bad paws. The paws get him into trouble and cause loud shouting and scoldings and seizures and removals, which the good cat endures with patient good humor— What are they carrying on… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Sentences aren’t. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old. And that brings up the real proof of what a mess I have made of being a man: I… Ursula K. Le Guin
