1,226 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Amazing Stories Mag: What does your writing process look like?Ursula K. Le Guin: It looks like a woman sitting at a desk, or staring out a window, or cooking dinner, or waking up in the morning, or whatever. You know what a ground bass is in music? A theme that keeps going on underneath, no matter what else is happening on top of it? Writing is the ground bass of my existence.

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

...There's no right answerto the wrong question.Now what do we do?

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

What is sacredness?What is true is sacred. What has been suffered. What is beautiful.So the Telling tries to find the truth in events or the pain, or the beauty?No need to try to find it, said Unroy. The sacredness is there. In the truth, the pain, the beauty. So that the telling of it is sacred.

No need to try to find it," said Unroy. "The sacredness is there. In thetruth, the pain, the beauty. So that the telling of it is sacred.

No need to try to find it," said Unroy. "The sacredness is there. In the truth, the pain, the beauty. So that the telling of it is sacred.

For a writer, there is a genuine difference between fantasy and science fiction.... [...] In fantasy you get to make it all up, even the rules of how things work, and then follow your rules absolutely. In science fiction you get to make it up, but you have to follow most of the rules of science, or at least not ignore them.

What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered.