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00:30That was the original and the best.
00:33People always say, when did you decide you wanted to be a writer?
00:36And I never wanted to be a writer. I just wrote.
00:39What Ursula was having to navigate was the societal prejudices against science fiction, against the fantastic.
00:49I'd like this not to be resigned, but to be rebellious.
00:53I want to see science fiction step over the old walls and head right into the next wall and start to break it down, too.
01:00When I started writing, the sort of basic assumption about fiction was that men were at the center of it.
01:07You have this really pretty masculine, pretty male-dominated world.
01:11I don't know how many times I was told I write well.
01:14But we don't know quite what you're doing.
01:17Ursula hasn't set herself up as a giver of answers, but she is one of the very finest explorers of questions.
01:24She really began to own herself as someone who has a voice and the authority that goes with that voice and the right to use it.
01:34Of course I can write novels with one hand and bring up three kids with the other.
01:38Yeah, sure. Watch me.
01:39So what's happened most recently is the broadening of Le Guin's audience and readership.
01:46She's being recognized not just as one of our great science fiction and fantasy writers, but one of our great American writers.
01:53It's certainly a remarkable writer who can meet you when you're 10 years old and give you something wonderful to read
01:59and still be there for you when you're 45 years old and everywhere in between.
02:05To learn to make something well can take your whole life, and it's worth it.
