Top 35 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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.

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.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.