Quotes by : Ursula K. Le Guin

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy....

And not only narrativity but the quality of the writing is of the first importance to me. Rightly or....

The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think like....

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness....

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but....

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game....

I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it.

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient:....

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and....

Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges....