- Traveling is bad for fiction but good for poetry. That's the only cycle I have noticed.
- There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Love does not sit there, like a stone; it has be be made like bread, remade all the time, made new.
- The creative adult is the child that has survived.
- 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.
- The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not know what comes next.
Happy Birthday Ursula.
5 comments:
Hi Brigindo,
Thank you for publishing these "gems." She's one of my favorite writers who writes about writing, and life. I'm reading parts of Language of the Night right now. I didn't realize she was quite that old, and I'm happy to know it's her birthday.
great quotes! happy birthday indeed.
The right answers/wrong questions quote is one of my favorites. Yay, Ursula! :)
Awesome quotes. I particularly love what she says about the reader. It's so true, isn't it? I love a writer who appreciates readers. Too many writers take their readers for granted.
And "the creative adult is the child that has survived" is fantastic. I just re-read the one about traveling. She is so brilliant. Happy birthday, Ursula!
It's because of you that I've begun to read and love LeGuin, thanks for pointing her out to me.
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