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Top 500 Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes (2026 Update)
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Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “When all ways are lost the way is clear.”

201. “When all ways are lost the way is clear.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “At the pit’s bottom is no anger.”

202. “At the pit’s bottom is no anger.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after ‘semicolons,’ and another one after ’now.”

203. “I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after ‘semicolons,’ and another one after ’now.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.”

204. “There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.”

205. “Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.”

206. “A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “What can I recommend? Trust your story; trust yourself; trust your readers – but wisely. Trust watchfully, not blindly. Trust flexibly, not rigidly. The whole thing, writing a story, is a high-wire act – there you are out in midair walking on a spiderweb line of words, and down in the darkness people are watching. What can you trust but your sense of balance?”

207. “What can I recommend? Trust your story; trust yourself; trust your readers – but wisely. Trust watchfully, not blindly. Trust flexibly, not rigidly. The whole thing, writing a story, is a high-wire act – there you are out in midair walking on a spiderweb line of words, and down in the darkness people are watching. What can you trust but your sense of balance?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “I think the imagination is the single most useful tool mankind possesses. It beats the opposable thumb. I can imagine living without my thumbs, but not without my imagination. I.”

208. “I think the imagination is the single most useful tool mankind possesses. It beats the opposable thumb. I can imagine living without my thumbs, but not without my imagination. I.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.”

209. “Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.”

210. “As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.”

211. “Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.”

212. “I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”

213. “The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.”

214. “The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be governed.”

215. “It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be governed.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.”

216. “I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.”

217. “In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up.”

218. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “It is useless work that darkens the heart.”

219. “It is useless work that darkens the heart.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable.”

220. “His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “An owl is mostly air.”

221. “An owl is mostly air.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Endurance may outlast hope.”

222. “Endurance may outlast hope.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “The machine conceals the machinations.”

223. “The machine conceals the machinations.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars.”

224. “Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.”

225. “Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend’s voice arises: and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?”

226. “I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend’s voice arises: and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after “semicolons,” and another one after “now.” And.”

227. “Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after “semicolons,” and another one after “now.” And.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.”

228. “But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.”

229. “Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.”

230. “The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie’s Choice. A daring tour de force.”

231. “My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie’s Choice. A daring tour de force.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “But I, who am old, who have done what I must do, who stand in the daylight facing my own death, the end of all possibility, I know that there is only one power that is real and worth the having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept.”

232. “But I, who am old, who have done what I must do, who stand in the daylight facing my own death, the end of all possibility, I know that there is only one power that is real and worth the having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.”

233. “I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “It is our suffering that brings us together.”

234. “It is our suffering that brings us together.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Alone, no one wins freedom.”

235. “Alone, no one wins freedom.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?”

236. “Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Housekeeping, the art of the infinite, is no game for amateurs.”

237. “Housekeeping, the art of the infinite, is no game for amateurs.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.”

238. “A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?”

239. “The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it.”

240. “I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.”

241. “O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.”

242. “Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.”

243. “To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “When I’m writing I don’t dream much; it’s like the dreaming gets used in the writing.”

244. “When I’m writing I don’t dream much; it’s like the dreaming gets used in the writing.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”

245. “If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.”

246. “Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.”

247. “I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There’s a story that wants to be told.”

248. “I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There’s a story that wants to be told.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Oh, never and forever aren’t for mortals, love. But we won’t be parted till I know it’s right that we part.”

249. “Oh, never and forever aren’t for mortals, love. But we won’t be parted till I know it’s right that we part.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote: “Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.”

250. “Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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