She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed. Ursula K. Le Guin More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin More Quotes From Ursula K. Le Guin A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea. Ursula K. Le Guin seaspringmen Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. Ursula K. Le Guin dreamsuccessreality 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 exceptionmen Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it. Ursula K. Le Guin knowingknowspeople Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds. Ursula K. Le Guin empathywritinggiving As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do. Ursula K. Le Guin realdoemen If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. Ursula K. Le Guin takensuicidewriting You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. Ursula K. Le Guin down-andwriting The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. Ursula K. Le Guin novelistsartistdoe In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it. Ursula K. Le Guin writingmeankids There are no right answers to wrong questions. Ursula K. Le Guin questions-and-answersasking-questionspeace Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone. Ursula K. Le Guin donenoisewriting Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up. Ursula K. Le Guin simplewritingkids We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. Ursula K. Le Guin differencespracticeart Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. Ursula K. Le Guin good-morninggood-dayfunny Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. Ursula K. Le Guin artistteacherbaby Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings Ursula K. Le Guin divine-rightchangedhumans Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. Ursula K. Le Guin thrivehealbelief If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Ursula K. Le Guin oppositeswarcivilization 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 hard-timesrealitythinking
