There is a relationship, a reciprocity between the words and the images, ideas, and emotions evoked by those words: the stronger that relationship, the stronger the work. To believe that you can achieve meaning or feeling without coherent, integrated patterning of the sounds, the rhythms, the sentence structures, the images, is like believing you can go for a walk without bones. — Ursula Le Guin, in Dancing at the Edge of the World

A wonderful distillation of quotes from Dancing is found in the Brainpickings blog posted on 21 Nov 2014. If you’re a writer, subscribe to Brainpickings and help support it. It’s a good investment of your time.