Quote of the Day (Ursula Le Guin, on Writers Who Can ‘Imagine Real Grounds for Hope’)

“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.”—Sci-fi author Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018), “Speech in Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,” Nov. 19, 2014