"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."
— Ursula K. Le Guin

January 1, 1970

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The Question I Get Asked Most Often in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)