Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The market is a tool, like a plow or an axe. It is not a god.

The word for world is forest.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential part of the process of discovering what we are doing and thinking and feeling.

An unfree mind is a mind that has been taught to believe in what is untrue.

Freedom is a heavy load, a beautiful and terrible thing.

I write fantasy and science fiction because I want to describe the world as I see it, not as it is supposed to be.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The artist is a man who has to fight with the world for the right to be himself.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The power of naming is the power of knowing.

What is the purpose of a story? To tell what happened.

I do not believe in the God of the Bible. I believe in the God of the cosmos.

The creative process is a mystery. I don't know where my ideas come from.

To be a writer is to be a rebel. To be a woman writer is to be a double rebel.

There are no easy answers. There are only hard choices.

The only way to write well is to write badly first.

I think that science fiction is a way of talking about the present.

The trouble with you and me, is that we're always trying to make sense of things that don't make sense.

We are the species that tells stories.