The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
– Ursula K Le Guin
Related Quotes:
- An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. – Brandon Mull
- You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart. – Dixie Waters
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person’s entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp. – Deb Caletti
- The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. – Isaac Asimov
- …what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it. – Bruce Meyer
- I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction. – Nike N Chillemi
- Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful! – Nadia Scrieva
- Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it’s own. I’m glad I don’t have to wear it very often. – Courtney C Stevens
- Black rose, black roseWho’s gonna be your only one?Who’s gonna keep you safe and warm?Run, run my baby black roseI’m gonna find you home. – PM Highlanders
- I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. – Allan Dare Pearce
- Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright. – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey. – Lynne Rae Perkins
- There is no break in the wholeness of time. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K Le Guin
- You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I know perfectly well he’s a god, too. But what I think is he’ll be much godlier after he’s dead. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. – Ursula K Le Guin
- You don’t speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them. – Ursula K Le Guin
- But you’re so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Not even need and love can defeat fate… – Ursula K Le Guin
- Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. – Ursula K Le Guin
- But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience – Ursula K Le Guin
- To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The premise is: everybody’s like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don’t think like me don’t matter. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The strength of Shevek’s personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. – Ursula K Le Guin