❝ Ramona Koval: Have your imagined worlds served the same purpose for you over the years that Virgil's imagined world serves for him, a place that he can go, a place that he can be, a place he can discover things?
Ursula K Le Guin: Apparently,
yes. It's not as if the real world isn't enough, but the more the
merrier. And of course an imaginary world, as every kid knows who draws
a map of their island or their city or something like that, that's
where you can make things happen the way you want them to happen.
Within limits, of course. If you're writing your story honestly, pretty
soon things happen the way they have to happen in that story and you're
not quite as much the boss as you thought you were, but we love to be
masters of something, to be controlling something. Most of us love to
be in control, and an author is in control, to some extent at least, of
the world they invent. ❞
(Italics mine)
