“ Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Le Guin’s Rule: One person cannot do two fulltime jobs, but two persons can do three fulltime jobs — if they honestly share the work. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Large, general questions about meaning, etc., can only be answered with generalities, which make me uncomfortable, because it is so hard to be honest when you generalize. If you skip over all the deta… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ La libertad es una carga pesada, extraña y abrumadora para el espíritu que ha de llevarla. No es cómoda. No es un regalo que se recibe, sino una elección que se hace, y la elección puede ser difícil. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I’d like a poster showing two old people with stooped backs and arthritic hands and time-worn faces sitting talking, deep, deep in conversation. And the slogan would be Old Age Is Not for the Young. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It was not that Abbenay was short of power, not with her wind turbines and the earth temperature-differential generators used for heating; but the principle of organic economy was too essential to the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Interruptions were sometimes more frequent than statements. The process, compared to a well-managed executive conference, was a slab of raw beef compared to a wiring diagram. Raw beef, however, functi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In the big, crowded, noisy room where golden suns swam on the walls and the years and Years were told on golden dials, he searched for the alien, the stranger, his wife. 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 word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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 lose the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I'm not sure. I'm exceedingly ignorant-The young man laughed and bowed. I'm honored! he said.I've lived here for three years, but haven't yet acquired enough ignorance to be worth mentioning. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I wrote an essay about the rhythm of Tolkien’s writing in The Lord of the Rings. Short rhythms repeated form long rhythms; there’s a cyclical repetition in his work which I think is part of why it tot… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a sel… Ursula K. Le Guin
