I cannot find anywhere in my life a time, or a kind of time, that is unoccupied. I am free, but my time is not. My time is fully and vitally occupied with sleep, with daydreaming, with doing business and writing friends and family on email, with reading, with writing poetry, with writing prose, with thinking, with forgetting, with embroidering, with cooking and eating a meal and cleaning up the kitchen, with meeting friends, with talking with my husband, with going out to shop for groceries, with walking if I can walk and traveling if we are traveling, with watching a movie sometimes, with lying down for an afternoon rest with a volume of Krazy Kat to read and my own slightly crazy cat occupying the region between my upper thighs and mid-calves, where he arranges himself and goes instantly and deeply to sleep. None of this is spare time. I can’t spare it.

-Ursula K. Le Guin

I was saddened by the recent death of Ursula K. Le Guin. Here are a few pieces that commemorate her work and writing process.

My Last Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Best Life Advice

Ursula K. Le Guin on ‘Starting Late’ as a Writer