Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Bucket feel so dreamy dreamy lazy, crazy sleepylike I want to be therein the doorway, the doorway or the porch corner be sitting, be emptynotdoing not going an old bucket left therein the porch corner is like I man old empty bucket somebody left there.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty... But knowing your limits and going to them isn't arrogance. It's greatness of spirit.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."" It might to keep it open.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power... It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.

— Ursula K. Le Guin