Ursula K. Le Guin
American novelist, poet, and essayist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
If science fiction is the myth of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, American novelist, poet, and essayist, Dancing at the End of the World, 1989
Posted on May 12, 2000 at 9:56 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, American novelist, poet, and essayist, A Left-Handed Commencement Address
Posted on August 20, 2001 at 4:20 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat...where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, American novelist, poet, and essayist, Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry
Posted on February 15, 2001 at 10:55 PM
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