Ursula K. Le Guin — "Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see…"

Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken societies and their obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula K. Le Guin Modern · Science fiction, fantasy

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National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters acceptance speech

Date: 2014

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