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Excerpts from interviews with Ursula K. Le Guin, from a book called Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations edited by David Streitfeld
(I am not familiar with this web site. It looks suspicious.)
https://www.nemaloknig.net/read-389693/?page=1#booktxt
Some favorite bits, from an interview that took place in 1977:
LE GUIN: I’ve never seen why science fiction can’t have people in it.
LE GUIN: I’ve never been able to do villains very well so I guess I do monsters.
LE GUIN: Harlan is a volcano in perpetual eruption, and if you can take a lot of lava in the face, if you don’t mind that, it’s tremendous.
JENSEN: Do you usually let people in your stories write the story for you?
LE GUIN: Sometimes. Sometimes it doesn’t happen at all. Sometimes I feel myself in control of them, manipulating them. But characters do take over. Most novelists talk about this phenomenon, with a little awe. It is a little scary, when you’ve got a character and you can’t shut him up.
(I am not familiar with this web site. It looks suspicious.)
https://www.nemaloknig.net/read-389693/?page=1#booktxt
Some favorite bits, from an interview that took place in 1977:
LE GUIN: I’ve never seen why science fiction can’t have people in it.
LE GUIN: I’ve never been able to do villains very well so I guess I do monsters.
LE GUIN: Harlan is a volcano in perpetual eruption, and if you can take a lot of lava in the face, if you don’t mind that, it’s tremendous.
JENSEN: Do you usually let people in your stories write the story for you?
LE GUIN: Sometimes. Sometimes it doesn’t happen at all. Sometimes I feel myself in control of them, manipulating them. But characters do take over. Most novelists talk about this phenomenon, with a little awe. It is a little scary, when you’ve got a character and you can’t shut him up.