Ursula K. Le Guin

The creative imagination is a wild animal. It cannot be tamed.

I am not a prophet. I am a storyteller.

The greatest joy is to be yourself.

The future is not a destination, it's a direction.

We are all responsible for what we do, and what we don't do.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Words are power. Use them wisely.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

I am not interested in writing about heroes. I am interested in writing about human beings.

The only thing worse than a bad book is a good book that you can't read.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

The greatest danger is not that we aim too high and miss it, but that we aim too low and reach it.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I believe that the best writing is always political.

The only true voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

We have no right to consume happiness without producing it.

The creative act is a rebellious act.

The only thing that is constant is change.

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.

If you don’t like my ideas, please don’t read my books.