Ursula K Le Guin quotes

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

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

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

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

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

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

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

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.