Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

538 quotes · Author, Poet, Essayist
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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
Creative
“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.”
Book Numbers Squares
Philosophical
“Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.”
Writing Lying Sex