Ursula Le Guin wijst de weg

"We will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope."

Ursula Le Guin bij de ontvangst van haar National Book Foundation's Medal. Hieronder de rest van de korte speech die bestaat uit louter waarheden.