{"id":41296,"date":"2023-07-17T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41296"},"modified":"2023-07-16T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T08:24:25","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-the-great-ursula-k-le-guin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/a-writing-quote-from-the-great-ursula-k-le-guin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote from the Great Ursula K Le Guin"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.”<\/h3>\n

~ Ursula K Le Guin, 1929 – 2018<\/p>\n

This quote comes from Ursula Le Guin’s acceptance speech for the 2014 National Book Foundation\u2019s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.<\/p>\n

Although short, I believe it’s well worth your time to read, or hear — both options available here:<\/p>\n

Speech in Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters<\/a><\/h4>\n

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“Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.” ~ Ursula K Le Guin, 1929 – 2018 This quote comes from Ursula Le Guin’s acceptance speech for the 2014 National Book Foundation\u2019s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Although short, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41298,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41296\/revisions\/41298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}