For all you young (or even old) writers out there, here’s a little advice from an author who surely had some influence on the writing you read now. After a long and storied career, Ursula K. Le Guin accepted the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 65th National Book Awards on November 19, 2014.

Read more about this and the effect she’s had on Neil Gaiman’s life in Katharine Duckett’s Tor.com article.