Ursula K. Le Guin's quote
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The Lathe of Heaven
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
The Telling
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Truth is a matter of the imagination.
The Left Hand of Darkness