{"id":41890,"date":"2024-01-25T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41890"},"modified":"2024-01-10T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T10:16:56","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-the-great-ursula-le-guin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/01\/25\/a-writing-quote-from-the-great-ursula-le-guin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote from the Great Ursula Le Guin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#8220;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 they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Ursula K Le Guin, 1929 &#8211; 2018<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~*~<\/p>\n<p>Yes, to all of that, at least from my small corner of the writing &#8216;verse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-36313 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Left-Hand-of-Darkness_1-90x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Left-Hand-of-Darkness_1-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Left-Hand-of-Darkness_1-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Left-Hand-of-Darkness_1.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-38902 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/The-Dispossessed-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/The-Dispossessed-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/The-Dispossessed-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/The-Dispossessed.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-35020 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/A-Wizard-of-Earthsea-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/A-Wizard-of-Earthsea-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/A-Wizard-of-Earthsea-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/A-Wizard-of-Earthsea.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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 they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.&#8221; Ursula K Le Guin, 1929 &#8211; 2018 ~*~ Yes, to all of that, at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41890","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=41890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41892,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41890\/revisions\/41892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}