Ursula K. Le Guin

I think it’s a bad idea to censor what kids read. I think it’s a bad idea to censor what anybody reads.

I am an old lady. I’m going to die soon. I want to say what I think.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

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

I hate to be told by some guy in a suit that I shouldn't be writing about this or that because it's not 'marketable.'

The one thing that makes it possible to get through life is to laugh. If you don't laugh, you're dead.

The artist is a servant of the art, not a master of it.

My mind is a muddle. I can't write a coherent sentence. I'm going to go eat a cookie.

We are all children of the universe, and we are all connected.

The truth is a matter of the imagination.

I write for myself and for my friends. And for the people who are not my friends, but who might become my friends.

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.

I have been trying to learn to use words, and every time I use them, they don't do what I want them to do.

The greatest good is to live with honor and to love with passion.

I am a feminist. I've been a feminist all my life. I think it's a perfectly normal thing to be.

I think a writer's job is to tell the truth. And the truth is not always pretty.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have any feelings, and then you're dead.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but the road to heaven is paved with them too.

I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in happy journeys.

The trouble with you, my dear, is that you think you're important.