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Ursula K. Le Guin — Portrait after a picture by Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State University (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

The quotations of

Ursula K. Le Guin

American fantasy and science fiction author

1929–2018

16 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Art and Love.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Introduction
- Art
- Writing
Sometimes one’s very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that’s the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.
“The magician” by Maya Jaggi in The Guardian (17 December 2005)
- Art
- Writing

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