It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Writing for children may seem easy, but it requires the same care and effort as raising them.
In this quote, Ursula K. Le Guin highlights the complexities involved in writing for children, suggesting that it is not merely a straightforward task. Just like parenting, which demands patience, understanding, and dedication, writing for kids involves navigating their unique perspectives and needs, ensuring the content resonates with them while being meaningful.
Themes
WritingChildrenParentingEducationCreativity
In practice
Example use cases
During a writing workshop, I shared a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin to emphasize the deeper commitment involved in writing for young audiences.
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All quotes →In 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.
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When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
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