I like their most material aspect: the sound of them, heard in the mind or spoken by the voice. But I know that to me words are things, almost immaterial but actual and real things, and that I like them. Ursula LeGuin is a deep thinker and shares her opinions on literature, male dominance and women's role. I don’t really know what it is I’ve done all my life, this wordworking. Reading No Time to Spare gets you thinking about your life and what you want to do with the time you have left to live. And that then by writing what I hear, I induce or compel readers to believe the voices are real too . . . You could say that I hear voices and believe the voices are real (which would mean I was schizophrenic, but the proverb test proves I’m not-I do, I do understand it, Doctor!). It’s imaginary, it takes place in the mind-my mind, and my reader’s. If what I do, what I make, is beautiful, it isn’t a physical beauty. And what my hands do with it in writing it down is not the same as what the hands of the weaver do with the yarn, or the potter’s hands with the clay, or the cabinetmaker’s with the wood.
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