Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.