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“Well, my friends,” he said, “what now?” Only the Doorkeeper answered. He said, “I think we should go to our house, and open its doors.”
― Tales from Earthsea
― Tales from Earthsea
“The center of gravity of Lem’s books is ethics.” This is Le Guin’s highest praise; and it establishes the central values of her fiction, and her criticism.”
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
“Just do the work you find in front of you and enjoy yourself.”
― The Shepherd's Crown
― The Shepherd's Crown
“Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, no direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promise.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“I’m a little shy about telling anybody to go read Tolstoy’s War and Peace, since it’s quite an undertaking; but it is a wonderful book. And from the technical aspect, it’s almost miraculous in the way it shifts imperceptibly from the author’s voice to the point of view of a character, speaking with perfect simplicity in the inner voice of a man, a woman, even a hunting dog, and then back to the thoughts of the author . . . till by the end you feel you have lived many lives: which is perhaps the greatest gift a novel can give.”
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
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