Top 28 Ursula K Le Guin Book Quotes

#1. a book is a box of words until you open it.

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#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

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#3. A dragonfly arrives and leaves like a change of mind.

David Mitchell

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#4. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

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#5. Give a day's work for a day's pay. Anything less is stealing.

Nicholas Sparks

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#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.

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#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.

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#8. All of us that read a lot, we're partly book-manufactured.

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#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.

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#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

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#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

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#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.

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#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.

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#14. We read books to find out who we are.

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#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.

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#16. I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

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#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

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#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

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#19. By and large books are mankind's best invention.

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#20. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

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#21. I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

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#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

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#23. You can only fail to pick the Castellan's pocket once

Brian Farrey

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#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

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#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

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#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.

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#27. Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

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#28. Backup backpacks.

Wendelin Van Draanen

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