Top 28 Ursula K Le Guin Book Quotes
#2. She always brought something when she came on Fridays, and this time it had been a book. A Wizard of Earthsea, written by someone called Ursula K. Le Guin, and already after the first few pages I knew that this was an absolutely fantastic book.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#3. A dragonfly arrives and leaves like a change of mind.
David Mitchell
#4. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#5. Give a day's work for a day's pay. Anything less is stealing.
Nicholas Sparks
#6. A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#7. While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices ... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#9. Ward: Which would you rather have, a National Book Award or a Hugo?
Le Guin: Oh, a Nobel, of course.
Ward: They don't give Nobel Awards in fantasy.
Le Guin: Maybe I can do something for peace.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#10. Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove
Dan Skinner
#11. I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries."
"I'm tired of mysteries."
"Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.
Neil Gaiman
#12. If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#16. 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
#17. I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice and ignorance that dismisses any book, unread, as not worth reading."
"On Despising Genres," essay
Ursula K. Le Guin
#18. When people thank you for doing something, you begin to realize how truly blessed you were to have been put in that position.
Jason Varitek
#20. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#21. I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in publishing, said, 'you already wrote one (referencing a screenplay), you just need to add the details.
E.L. Sayers
#23. You can only fail to pick the Castellan's pocket once
Brian Farrey
#24. Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes
once they had gone a certain length
that was perhaps chief among the inevitabilities of the abjection of love.
Henry James
#25. I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
Tawni O'Dell
#26. After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#27. Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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