Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.

Ursula K. Le Guin

• People
• Character
• Control

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Girl
  • Fighting
  • Little

• Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
  • Thinks

• I know every politician spins the truth a little.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Politician

• There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Great
  • True
  • Crazy

• Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Know

• With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Experience
  • Player
  • Better

• You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Never
  • Criticism
  • Salt

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
  • Trust
  • Just

• I'm a dork!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Dork

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Human
  • Race
  • Realize

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stage

• The scales of justice are in disarray...

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Justice

• Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Looks
  • Mirror
  • Yoga

• Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Wish

• Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government.

  

  John McCain
  • America

• If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Character
  • Control