19 September 2022
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.
Ursula K. Le Guin in her acceptance speech for the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014