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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Ursula K. Le Guin quotes

American Writer October 21, 1929

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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming..."
When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. Ursula K. Le Guin
. . . the literature of imaginatiion, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business..."
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the..."
Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...] Ursula K. Le Guin
Ai was exhausted and enraged. He looked ready to cry, but did not. I believe he considers crying either evil or shameful. Even when he was very ill and weak, the first days of our escape, he hid his face from me when he wept. Reasons personal, racial, social, sexual? how can I guess why Ai must not weep? Ursula K. Le Guin
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal."
There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. Ursula K. Le Guin
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place."
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "The light is the left hand of darkness"
The light is the left hand of darkness Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Light is the left hand of darkness."
Light is the left hand of darkness. Ursula K. Le Guin
...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. Ursula K. Le Guin
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. Ursula K. Le Guin
You're a respectable woman, dearie, and her reputation is a woman's wealth."Her wealth," Tenar repeated in the same blank way; then she said it again: "Her wealth. Her treasure. Her hoard. Her value... Ursula K. Le Guin

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