magic exists in most societies in one
way or no I do make up things that
didn't exist before by naming them I
call it earth see and there it is
I don't think Harry Potter could have
existed without earth see I read a
wizard of Earthsea and things rearranged
in my head that was the original and the
best people always say when did you
decide you wanted to be a writer and I
never wanted to be a writer I just wrote
what Ursula was having to navigate was
the societal prejudices against science
fiction against the fantastic
I'd like this not to be resigned but to
be rebellious I want to see science
fiction step over the old walls and head
right into the next wall and start to
break it down - when I started write the
sort of basic assumption about fiction
was that men were at the center of it
enough this really pretty masculine
pretty male dog
I don't know how many times I was told I
write well but we don't know quite what
your goodness oh she let hasn't set
herself up as a giver of answers but she
is one of the very finest explorers of
questions she really began to own
herself as someone who has a voice and
the authority that goes with that voice
and the right to use it of course I can
write novels with one hand and bring up
three kids with you not sure watch me
so what's happened most recently is the
broadening of leg winds audience and
readership she's being recognized not
just as one of our great science fiction
and fantasy writers but one of our great
American writers it's certainly a
remarkable writer who can meet you on
your 10 years old
and give you something wonderful to read
and still be there for you when you're
45 years old and everywhere in between
to learn to make something well can take
your whole life and he's working
