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"The fiction of my time is about dysfunctional American suburban families."
"Maybe, as I’ve gone on, what I’ve learned as a writer is that you do as little as possible. And part of it is leaving a lot of it up to the reader. And a lot of it is realizing you don’t have to do that much if you do the right thing. [Makes clicking sound] That’s enough. So my writing has tended to be shorter and more allusive than it used to be. I was re-reading The Lathe of Heaven — which I’m still fond of, which I still think is funny — but, boy would I cut it if I could. They talk too much. They explain things too much."
—Ursula Le Guin book chat!
"The fiction of my time is about dysfunctional American suburban families." Ms. LeGuin's fiction, however, is about far more interesting things. And that's why I read her instead of, say, Jonathan Franzen. (I grew up in a dysfunctional American suburban family. I really don't need to read novels about them.)