More from Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 72)
- The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 77)
- The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 1 (p. 13)
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.
The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
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