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
“There’s seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 1 “Mending the Green Pitcher” (p. 8)
The Question I Get Asked Most Often in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
““Why are you always so full of answers?”
“Because life’s so full of questions.””
Fonte: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 2 (p. 26)
“No, I don’t understand him, but he is worth listening to.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 3, "Hort Town"
“The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”
Fonte: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 6
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Tombs of Atuan (1971), Chapter 12, "Voyage"
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” p. 255 (originally published in New Dimensions 3, edited by Robert Silverberg)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“The solution lies in secrecy,” said Medra. “But so does the problem.”
“The Finder” (p. 64)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 118)
"A Woman's Liberation", p. 184
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
“Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 5
"A Message About Messages" in CBC Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20051128074549/http://www.cbcbooks.org/cbcmagazine/meet/leguin_ursula_k.html
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (p. 55)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 8, "Hawks"
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 11 “Soliloquies in Mishnory” (p. 151)
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 118)
“Darkrose and Diamond” (p. 110)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 12, "Winter"
“A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 8, "Hawks"
“O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.”
Foreward (p. xiii)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 7 “The Question of Sex” (p. 95)
“Going was easy. Keep on going was hard.”
Fonte: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 7 (p. 95)
