It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the intrinsic nature of being a writer rather than a learned aspiration.
Ursula K. Le Guin expresses that being a writer is not merely a goal one sets out to achieve, but rather an inherent quality that defines her. This perspective highlights the notion that creative expression is a fundamental aspect of oneβs identity, rather than a profession one merely chooses to pursue.
Themes
WritingIdentityCreativityPassionSelf-Identity
In practice
Example use cases
You could use this quote when discussing the importance of following your passions in a writer's workshop.
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All quotes βIn reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
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Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. βDo they expect students not to be anarchists?β he said. βWhat else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
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