Quotes By Ursula K. Le Guin

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

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.

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.

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

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

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.