The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Ursula K. Le Guin

“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”

Ursula K. Le Guin – one of the finest, sharpest writers of our time – on the art of listening and the magic of real human conversation: