“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.”
This quote comes from Ursula K. Le Guin’s speech in acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in November 2014. But the quote doesn’t really do justice to the whole speech, which is short but powerful. You can read the speech via @ursulakleguin website. I cannot recommend it more.
Image thanks to: Cover of the 1st edition of Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Wikipedia.
Voices under the Sun 陽光下的聲音 