The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. Ursula K. Le Guin More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin More Quotes From Ursula K. Le Guin Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew. Ursula K. Le Guin letting-go writing beautiful To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read. Ursula K. Le Guin writing jobs thinking Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. Ursula K. Le Guin excess body poison The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit. Ursula K. Le Guin business acceptance jobs By and large books are mankind's best invention. Ursula K. Le Guin invention mankind book A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls. Ursula K. Le Guin who-cares soul mean Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. Ursula K. Le Guin fantasy talking reality The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars. Ursula K. Le Guin silence stars darkness Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. Ursula K. Le Guin injustice break And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. Ursula K. Le Guin pain dark men The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. Ursula K. Le Guin coins individual issues It is not human to be without shame and without desire. Ursula K. Le Guin shame humans desire There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. Ursula K. Le Guin eye mind dream The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. Ursula K. Le Guin deals artist said Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said. Ursula K. Le Guin black said art If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work. Ursula K. Le Guin motivation mean art Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language. Ursula K. Le Guin communication dumb men There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear. Ursula K. Le Guin When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up Ursula K. Le Guin anarchist upset students Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. Ursula K. Le Guin saying-goodbye knows forever
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