Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.Ursula K. Le Guin
The creative adult is the child who has survived.Ursula K. Le Guin
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain’t no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking.Ursula K. Le Guin
The story–from Rumpelstiltskin to War and Peace–is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind, for the purpose of gaining understanding.Ursula K. Le Guin
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.Ursula K. Le Guin
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.Ursula K. Le Guin
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.Ursula K. Le Guin
To oppose something is to maintain it.Ursula K. Le Guin