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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes (172 quotes)
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| Source/Notes: The lathe of heaven (1973 edition) - ISBN: 9780380435470 |
| “The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.” ―Ursula K. Le Guin Source/Notes: Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1976) |
| “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 Source/Notes: Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1976) |
| “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 Source/Notes: The Creatures on My Mind in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996), p. 65 |
| “All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.” ―Ursula K. Le Guin Source/Notes: The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004) |
| “To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.” ―Ursula K. Le Guin Source/Notes: The Question I Get Asked Most Often in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004) |
| Source/Notes: Cannoc, in Gifts (2004) |
| “Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.” ―Ursula K. Le Guin Source/Notes: The magician by Maya Jaggi in The Guardian (17 December 2005) |
| “The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.” ―Ursula K. Le Guin Source/Notes: A Message About Messages in CBC Magazine |
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Born: October 21, 1929 (age 89)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author, novelist
Bio: Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays.
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