17 Quotes by Ursula K. LeGuin

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.

For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.

Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult game.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

To believe that our beliefs are permanent truths which encompass reality is a sad arrogance. To let go of that belief is to find safety.

Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.