Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
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To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening was when I was 10, with a biography of Thomas Edison.
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Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.
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The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
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I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
