I want to be Ursula K. Le Guin when I grow up.

[truepenny]

Especially the take-no-prisoners attitude.

Q. & A. transcript here.

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[libskrat]

Take a number. I've wanted to be UKL for years and years and years.

If I thought I had anything like Tehanu in me, I would drop everything and start writing, and that's a fact. (Well, okay, it's a counterfactual. But you see what I'm getting at.)

[redbird]

Thanks for the pointer. That is a fine question-and-answer session.

[katwrites.livejournal.com]

*grin*
Me too.
Especially since she has excellent taste in tea. (I see her around the various tea shops here now and then. It's nice to have somebody famous living a couple of miles away! When I feel blue about my writing, I just reassure myself that I'm breathing the same air that she is, and I can't go too far wrong.)

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. Splendid. Thank you for the link. It's all good, but for sheer amusement I especially like this:

Q: Do you have a favourite TV programme?

UKL: I used to watch Star Trek, until they went off the rails with Voyager, and when we were in England about two centuries ago we got hooked on Dr Who - the guy with the long scarf and the great nose, not the one after him who looked like he needed some vitamins.