Top 33 Ursula Le Guin Book Quotes

#1. You paint the truth, Marguerite, I don't think you could work any other way.

Claudia Gray

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#2. Don't criticise them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances." Yet

Dale Carnegie

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#4. 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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#5. -Some guy stopped by to see you.
-Who was it?
-I don't know.
-You don't know? Was he cute? Did you fall in love with him?

Jeffrey Brown

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#7. We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Ludwig Quidde

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#8. 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

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#9. 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

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#10. I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.

David Sedaris

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#12. 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

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#13. All the sadness, all the hurt in the past making this moment all the sweeter. If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.

Pierce Brown

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#14. 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

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#15. 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

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#17. We're all gonna be gay if we get health care!

Bill Maher

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#18. 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

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#19. 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

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#20. . . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Peter R. Pouncey

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#21. 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

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#22. I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

Reynolds Price

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#23. A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Mark Lawrence

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#24. Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.

Wendell Berry

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#27. Ten-A-Fly took off his sunglasses as if they'd angered him. His scowl aimed for intimidation but seemed more in the neighborhood of constipation. "So

Harlan Coben

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#29. 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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#30. The future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present.

Mindee Arnett

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#31. The hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

Mary Cantwell

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#32. 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

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#33. 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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