Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula le Guin
If we are going to work less, does that mean we will play more?
Lund university, founded in 1666, and its research centre the Pufendorf Institute. That was where I met up with the Degrowth research group on 18th March 2016. I had been invited by the coordinators, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Alexander Paulsson to hold a workshop for the research group that would use different methods – visual art, drama, […]
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone;
it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
A love letter
A love letter from one great writer to another.
Now where did I put that file?
Goodbye Google archive stuff. Hello non-profit Internet Archive. Read more here. And more about Google as reported and collated by Ursula Le Guin here. And more great cartoons from xkcd here.
Ursula K. Le Guin. Freedom is the Name of our Beautiful Reward
If you know me at all, you’ll probably know that I am a big Ursula K. Le Guin fan. And I am not the only one: David Mitchell and Zadie Smith cite her as a major influence; and there are many of us who are passionate about this excellent and prolific writer. All I can […]
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Trust your story; trust yourself; trust your readers - but wisely. Trust watchfully, not blindly. Trust flexibly, not rigidly. The whole thing, writing a story, is a high-wire act - there you are out in midair walking on a spiderweb line of words, and down in the darkness people are watching. What can you trust but your sense of balance?
Ursula K. Le Guin