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The Wave In The Mind

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engagin

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“Getting old can be worth the trouble if it gives you time to do some soul making.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com

Tagged: Aging, Getting Older

“For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it’s there, and you just reach up and pick it. Then you have to be able to let it tell itself.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com

Tagged: fiction, How To Write Fiction

“In order to write a story, you have to trust yourself, you have to trust the story, and you have to trust the reader.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing

“Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com

Tagged: speed, Not Paying Attention

“Words do have power. Names have power. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com

Tagged: Communicating, Conversation, Language, What Words Do

“Listening is not a reaction, it is a connection.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com

Tagged: Conversations, dialogue, talking, Human Interaction, Quote of the Moment