"We will need writers who can remember freedom.'' -powerful. Profound. *I'd rather hear her speak about writing and her philosophies than read her books.
One of the bravest novelists known to mankind. Being a sci-fi novelist and having the courage to criticize the current economic system at the same time is something most artists cowardly avoid. May she rest in peace.
01:34 Rejoicing in accepting a beautiful reward for all excluded fantasy and science fiction writers 03:08 The importance of writers who can see alternatives and imagine hope 03:55 Publishers charging libraries more for e-books than customers 05:29 The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. 06:09 The speaker talks about the importance of freedom and thanks the audience Crafted by Merlin AI.
Ursula K. Le Guin was a visionary writer whose work transcended genre to explore the big questions of human existence. Her intelligent, compassionate, and imaginative stories have inspired generations of readers and writers alike. Le Guin's work is characterized by its complex characters, thought-provoking plots, and challenging themes. She used her platform to advocate for social justice and environmentalism, and her work continues to resonate with readers today. Thank you, Ursula K. Le Guin, for your gift to the world. *LOVE FROM INDIA*
The notable difference within 24 seconds ... the applause @2:20 and then at @2:44 where Le Guin starts to get a bit more specific about what she's really getting at.
"But the name of our beautiful reward is not profit, its name is freedom." I'm not a professional writer though, maybe because of that, I'm totally with you on this. RIP Ursula Le Guin, I hope this world wouldn't forget entirely the values you said.
What an amazing and prophetically accurate speech. #AmericanLiteratureEqualsFreedom Thank you Ursula K. Le Guin for sharing your gift with the world! HAGD 🙏
She is probably the only famous person I've never met that makes me cry when I think about her not being with us anymore. My favorite writer by a mile and such a fierce, intelligent woman who refuses to back down and instead continued to criticize harmful power structures until the very end.
Her speech gets me things of Jerry Mcquire. During the career of Ursula Le Guin, did she suffer the disciple of doing the "good' things? Show me the Money - Jerry Maguire ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FFrag8ll85w.html Careful as "we" will, careful as "we go.
Reader/Fan of Ursula Le Guin and The Tombs of Atuan says, "Solar radiation management is REALITY not fantasy." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h44lvW007ec.html
i have just seen an advertisement for another not "realistic" but rather cynic "SciFi" not movie but bullshit! in the four years since Ms. LeGuins brillant speec the "business" hasn't learned anything but to smash the genre against the wall again and again. now they got the Trump and they deserve it - SciFi from bad to worse but from fiction to reality
To the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks, from the heart. My family, my agents, my editors, know that my being here is their doing as well as my own, and that the beautiful reward is theirs as much as mine. And I rejoice in accepting it for, and sharing it with, all the writers who’ve been excluded from literature for so long - my fellow authors of fantasy and science fiction, writers of the imagination, who for 50 years have watched the beautiful rewards go to the so-called realists. Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom - poets, visionaries - realists of a larger reality. Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship. Yet I see sales departments given control over editorial. I see my own publishers, in a silly panic of ignorance and greed, charging public libraries for an e-book six or seven times more than they charge customers. We just saw a profiteer try to punish a publisher for disobedience, and writers threatened by corporate fatwa. And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this - letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write. Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words. I’ve had a long career as a writer, and a good one, in good company. Here at the end of it, I don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. We who live by writing and publishing want and should demand our fair share of the proceeds; but the name of our beautiful reward isn’t profit. Its name is freedom.
"Truth is a matter of the imagination." How can I ever thank you for words such as these, which in their simplicity express what words cannot - and yet, metaphorically do - express, Ursula? You were, and will continue to be, a great source of inspiration in so very many ways. Farewell, with gratitude.
"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. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper." I and so many others who's lives you've touched can't thank you enough for your ideas, your imagination, your compassion, your empathy, your wit, your wisdom, your beauty, and your words. May the dragons bear you to the Farthest Shore.
One of most important and most beloved writers for me. And in this speech you can see her wisdom, courage, sense of humor - everything. Thank you for the ,,Earthsea" masterpiece and all the other great books! Rest in peace, we will miss you .
