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Quotes About Le Guin

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.
~ Jo Walton
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
~ le guin ursula k iv
Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.
~ le guin ursula k iv
Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.
~ le guin ursula k vii
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Oh, Hank, " Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James, " Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind.
~ Unknown