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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Book by Ursula K. Le Guin · 3 quotes · People, World, Writing

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“If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.”

“We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.”