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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#depends #power #rapist #silence #women

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. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#another #another way #before #could #fact

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#earn #earns #even #given #happiness

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

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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. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#beautiful #close #day #day to day #dirt

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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