Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes & Sayings

35 most famous Ursula K. Le Guin quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 95 year old American writer born on Oct 21, 1929.

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”

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

“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.”

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.”

“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”

“If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.”

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

“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”