Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Quotes

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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