Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination

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Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cor — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination
The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show th — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination
Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to in — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination
The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination