Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guinis 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. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 October 1929
CountryUnited States of America
stories may helping
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
writing stories plot
The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
writing library stories
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
stories world fiction
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.
children imagination stories
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
voice facts stories
...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.
people stories goes-on
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
squares stories want
I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.
thinking stories ends
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.
writing stories want
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
freedom responsibility absolute-freedom
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
basically breaks constructs custom male order power rule values women
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.
classes glad living strange teach telling
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
further hope reached since
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.