But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.
Ursula K. Le GuinSkill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
Ursula K. Le GuinIn the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
Ursula K. Le GuinWe have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
Ursula K. Le Guin