Our Third Book Quote for Saturday from Ursula Le Guin

“The sound of the language is where it all begins and what it all comes back to. The basic elements of language are physical: the noise words make and the rhythm of their relationships. This is just as true of written prose as it is of poetry, though the sound effects of prose are usually subtle and always irregular.”

~ Ursula Le Guin, Steering The Craft

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I am currently doing a series of Saturday quotes from Ursula Le Guin’s book on writing titled Steering The Craft. If you haven’t already enco...