The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

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In later years Le Guin worked in film and audio.

R. She has won the Hugo Award Nebula Award Locus Award and World Fantasy Award each more than once. Dick by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy Virgil and the Brontë sisters and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland The Wind in the Willows The Jungle Book by Norse mythology and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.