UKL: Like most films by independent film-makers, it has to find backing. Currently Arwen Curry is directing the documentary Worlds of Ursula K. But nobody is making it very much easier for us to do so. I think it isn’t as difficult for a women with children to be a writer as it used to be, because these days nobody is telling us that it’s impossible and wrong to have both books and babies. The problems for women who write are very much the same as they always were. Yet still, books that win prizes are mostly by men, reviews are mostly of books by men, a story about women is merely “for women” while a story about men is “for us all” - etc. In the last fifty years (I can only speak for America, of course) much has changed, and for the better.
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UKL: Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose. In the last 50 years, from the 1960's to today, what changes do you see regarding female writers and their rights and opportunities? Are the problems for women who write the same? It contains articles and speeches that you wrote and made in the 1970’s and 1980’s on a variety subjects including women and writing. A collection of your works, Women, Dreams and Dragons in Turkish, is one of the bedside books of Turkey. The films made in Hollywood and Japan, supposedly “based on” my Earthsea book, had nothing in common with the books at all they used some names and a few events in mindlessly violent films that merely exploited the reputation of the books.
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The more imaginative the book, the richer that experience may be.Ī very good film was made for Public TV in 1980 of my novel The Lathe of Heaven. To read a story is to recreate it in the mind, to make it happen - reading is an intensely active process, actively involving the imagination.
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When we watch a movie we just watch it, passively. UKL: I like movies very much, and they can enrich our mind and experience - but they can’t do nearly as much to enrich our imagination as books do. Do you think that this trend helps us enrich and improve our imagination? What is your opinion about your books or stories being modify for movies? How did you feel about the Earthsea adaptation to the screen? Many Science Fiction and Fantasy books have recently been turned into movies or TV series.
How could I understand reality without it? #ģ.
Imagination provides the balance of my life. All the worlds of my imagination are Earth, seen through my mind’s eye. After all these travels, how does Earth seem to you? While you are working on a story that requires traveling between our earth and your imagined worlds, how do you balance the needs of your imagination and life? You have explored many Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds. Perhaps a whole life is much too complicated a matter ever to be called “a success,” though alas, there are lives that are almost wholly failures. My definition of a “successful career”: Getting paid and appreciated for doing what you do well and like to do. To me, as a writer, a “successful novel” is a novel that does what I wanted it to do, or is what I hoped it would be, while I was planning and writing it. I’m not certain what it means, or maybe the problem with it is that it means such different things to different people. UKL: Your question makes me realise that “success” is a word I don’t use. You have readers all over the world, and have won a great number of awards. You have written many books in a variety of genres including Science Fiction, Fantasy, Non-Fiction, and Poetry. Karabatak Magazine, 9th edition, summer issue, 2013ġ.
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