Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
From Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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