Top 35 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

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.

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

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.

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

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.