-- Words Are My Matter In 'Freedom,' Le Guin notes: 'Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now '¦ to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom'poets, visionaries'realists of a larger reality.' Le Guin was one of those authors and in Words Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.