Ursula Le Guin Quotes

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

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.

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

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.