PARTIAL QUOTES FROM URSULA LE GUIN (video of her speech below) talking about how the world needs writers who understand freedom, this goes for musicians and other artists as well! I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality. Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between the production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not quite the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship. . . .
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:50:48 +0000
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