Ursula K. Le Guin

Quotes

• “As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suit...”
• “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential gui...”
• “As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, a...”
• “I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and...”
• “Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good b...”
• “To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a differe...”
• “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
• “My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
• “Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.”
• “It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.”
• “The creative adult is the child who has survived.”