Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Quotes

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 good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

- 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

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

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

- 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

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

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

- 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

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