Ursula Kroeber Le Guin é uma escritora norte-americana. Escreveu romances, ensaios, contos, poesia e literatura infantil, destacando-se na Fantasia e na Ficção Científica. Os seus primeiros trabalhos foram publicados em 1960 e, desde aí, as suas obras exploram, nomeadamente, aspectos do taoísmo, anarquismo, etnografia, feminismo, psicologia e sociologia.
Suas obras mais conhecidas são o Ciclo de Terramar, composto por cinco volumes — O Feiticeiro e a Sombra , Os Túmulos de Atuan , A Praia mais Longínqua , Tehanu, o nome da estrela e Num Vento Diferente — e o romance A Mão Esquerda da Escuridão, parte do Ciclo de Hainish, outra de suas séries de alta fantasia.
“É bom ter um objetivo para a jornada á frente, mas, no fim, o que importa é a jornada.”
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
citado em "The farthest shores of Ursula K. Le Guin" - Página 27, George Edgar Slusser - Wildside Press LLC, 1976, ISBN 0893702056, 9780893702052 - 60 páginas
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
"Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places" - Página 116, Ursula K. Le Guin - Grove Press, 1997, ISBN 0802135293, 9780802135292 - 320 páginas
“Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.”
Section 5
Hainish Cycle, The Word for World Is Forest (1972)
“I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 79)
“The Bones of the Earth” (p. 139)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 3 (Master Hand)
“Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 2, §2 (p. 32)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 4, "Kalessin"
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 4, "Magelight" (Arren and Ged)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 10, "The Dolphin"
“Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.”
“Dragonfly” (p. 201)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 12, "The Dry Land"
“The more defensive a society, the more conformist.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 4
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 72)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 1, "The Rowan Tree"
“The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams"
“In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance.”
Fonte: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 66)
“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?”
“The Finder” (p. 67)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 18 “On the Ice” (p. 252)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 7
Fonte: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 10 (p. 151)
“The Field of Vision” p. 243 (originally published in Galaxy, October 1973)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“Manipulated, one manipulates others.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 92)
“There’s no way to use power for good.”
“The Finder” (p. 42)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“They do.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Ged and Arren)
