'One of the literary greats of the twentieth century' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A crafter of fierce
focused fertile dreams' DAVID MITCHELL 'A literary icon' STEPHEN KING 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 . . . Words Are My Matter is a selection of
Ursula K. Le Guin's best writing on literature articulating with precision and passion her
belief in the social and political value of storytelling - especially in hard times. In doing
so and with her characteristic spirit Le Guin offers both a glimmer of hope and a set of
operating instructions for a life lived with meaning.
