Quotes by Ursula 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.
• When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
• To oppose something is to maintain it.
• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
• There are no right answers to wrong questions.
• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
• The creative adult is the child who has survived.
• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
• Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
• Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
• It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
• It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
• It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
• He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
• Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.