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Quotes by Ursula K. LeGuin

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
The story - from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace - is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
– Ursula K. LeGuin
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
– 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.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
– 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.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
– 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.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
– 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.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
To oppose something is to maintain it.
– 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.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
– Ursula K. Le Guin
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
– Ursula K. Le Guin