Ursula K. Le Guin Quote

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.


The Question I Get Asked Most Often in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)


To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.