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.
(Where Do You Get Your Ideas From, 1987)

Ursula K. Le Guin

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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. Le Guin (The Lathe of Heaven, 1971)

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin (The Lathe of Heaven - Chapter 10, 1971)

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969)

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