Top 35 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

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

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

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

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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