More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
To hear, one must be silent.
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
