Top 60 Best Ursula Quotes
#1. I hate the bigotry you believe in. But I'll try not to hate you."
"Why?" he asked. His voice was cold, as she remembered it.
"Hate eats the hater," she quoted from a familiar text of the Telling.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#2. To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#4. You can't change anything from the outside in. Standing apart, looking down, talking the overview, you see pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be part of the weaving.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#5. There are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#6. It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.
Kate Atkinson
#8. 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
#9. 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think; drips off one's teeth like sugar-syrup.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
#11. So we have this eyesore on the property.
No, it's not the beagle. I can understand why you'd think that, though.
Ursula Vernon
#12. And that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse.
Ursula Vernon
#13. Oh Lavinia, Lavinia, you are worth ten Camillas. And I never saw it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#14. I've been looking only at what's to be done next and forgetting why we're doing it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. If there are frontiers between the civilised and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#16. A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#17. And so, because he won't let himself be hurt, he does wrong to those he loves best. And then he sees that, and after all, it hurts him.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#18. Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.
Ursula Parrott
#19. This story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed, I am not sure whose story it is; you can judge better. But it is all one, and if at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them is false, and it is all one story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#20. Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, "He'll get in trouble and he'll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It's the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves.
Ursula Vernon
#21. Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text - compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping - what is this, electroshock torture?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. Let's take a minute to talk about spellbooks, since, in this day and age when magic is no longer taught in schools (or is, at best, an elective like Home Economics), very few people have the experience with spellbooks that they used to.
Ursula Vernon
#23. The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#24. By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#27. The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
Ursula Burns
#28. The habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#30. I have learned how I work best, and that is something that, if you're going to be a professional writer, you should be noticing: under what circumstances you work at your best, and to not get yourself cornered into writing in a way that doesn't let you do your best.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#31. The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#33. An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
Ursula Parrott
#34. The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#36. Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#37. For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#39. Crafty writers ... don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#40. I hope you'll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#41. Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
Ursula Parrott
#42. I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#43. There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
Rachel Cusk
#44. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#45. I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence. By
Ursula K. Le Guin
#46. Peace is not the absence of war - peace is the absence of fear.
Ursula Franklin
#47. Oh dear God, no, stop!"
Fumblefoot gave her a reproachful look. Stop what?
I have broken into an enchanted manor house and my pony has crapped on the floor. Oh God.
-Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher
#48. The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#49. 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
#50. In innocence there is no strength against evil [ ... ] but there is strength in it for good.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#51. but he killed the best Disney villain of all time, the drag queen that is Ursula. Unforgivable. RIP. 4.
Tyler Oakley
#53. What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#56. There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#58. It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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