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
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 3, "Hort Town" (Arren and Ged)
“Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, Planet of Exile (1966), Chapter 4 (The Tall Young Men)
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 15 “To the Ice” (p. 213)
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (pp. 69-70)
Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1976)
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 104)
“Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?”
Fonte: Lavinia (2008), p. 66
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Tombs of Atuan (1971), Chapter 11, "The Western Mountains"
“Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 1, "The Rowan Tree"
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” p. 254 (originally published in New Dimensions 3, edited by Robert Silverberg)
Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“Aye. Like knows like, sister”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 6, "Lorbanery" (Ged)
“The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 5
“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 3 “The Mad King” (p. 42)
“Darkrose and Diamond” (p. 125)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 9
“Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 1
“He detested them for forcing helplessness upon him.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, Planet of Exile (1966), Chapter 9 (The Guerillas)
"A Woman's Liberation", p. 208
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
"A Man of the People", p. 108
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 16 “Between Drumner and Dremegole” (p. 233)
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 1 “A Parade in Ehrenrang” (p. 1; opening paragraph)
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 14 “The Escape” (p. 197)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 5 “Rejoining” (p. 284)
“"Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men."”
Fonte: Lavinia (2008), p. 87
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 116)
