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Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying. The weat...more

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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

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...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and ...more

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I write with all my heart

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I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themsel...more

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What is fantasy? On one level, of course, it is a game: a pure pretense with no ulterior motive whatever. It is one child saying to another child, “Le...more

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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 ine...more

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Excerpt from Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book AwardsHard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternati...more

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Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up.

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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. Res...more

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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so the...more

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Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to...more

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And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and...more