Tolfink Was Here: On Ursula K. Le Guin and Me
"We writers are the raw nerve of the universe. Our job is to go out and feel things for people, then to come back and tell them how it feels to be alive. Because they are numb. Because we have forgotten." —Ursula Le Guin
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Pauline, who is sparing with words, said after clearing her throat, “Offer your experience as your truth.”
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“Hard times are coming,” declared author Ursula K. Le Guin in a short but rousing speech after receiving the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Those challenges, she explained, made it essential to have writers “who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society a... See more
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Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
The summer that author Toni Morrison died, I went on a binge-read of her majestic novels and essays. For years, she had been a beacon for me: a truth teller, a way finder, a culture changer. A woman who bore witness to her own experience and courageously told her story.