Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

I'm no different than you.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

I will never actually be able to know what it's like to go through life in someone else's body.

It's fun playing a more feminine part. I can identify more with a woman of passion and emotion than with a cartoon character. Who knows what a cartoon feels?

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably empathy.

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

I'm human just like everyone.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.