Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ursula K. Le Guin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: October 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 22
Author
Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Scales
Planets
Large
Places
Space
Spaces
Scale
More quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration.
Ursula K. Le Guin
I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be it tells itself I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words and the writer's job is to be its medium.
Ursula K. Le Guin
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The word must be heard in silence there must be darkness to see the stars.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dreams take short cuts.
Ursula K. Le Guin
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.
Ursula K. Le Guin
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
Ursula K. Le Guin
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.
Ursula K. Le Guin
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
Ursula K. Le Guin
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
Ursula K. Le Guin
