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Ursula K Le Guin Quotes
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![...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn’t SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/985/984346/984346.webp "...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn’t SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well Picture Quote #1")
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![In innocence there is no strength against evil [...] but there is strength in it for good Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/3/1014/1013750/1013750.webp "In innocence there is no strength against evil [...] but there is strength in it for good Picture Quote #1")
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life. (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. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can’t understand that they end in him, but they don’t end with him. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism , Christianity , and Islam , and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism . For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
There’s a great fear of the imagination. It’s a dangerous thing. It’s out of control, it’s subversive. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
I know perfectly well he’s a God, too. But what I think is he’ll be much godlier after he’s dead. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
It always seemed to me they’re sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life. But he himself is young: impatient, inexperienced. He stands higher than we stand, seeing wider, but he is himself only the height of a man. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn’t SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
I don’t write tracts, I write novels. I’m not a preacher, I’m a fiction writer. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it’s there, and you just reach up and pick it. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
In innocence there is no strength against evil [...] but there is strength in it for good. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)
You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes)