Quotes By Ursula K. Le Guin

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.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

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.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

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