Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes (10+)

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader makes it live.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

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

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.