Ursula K LeGuin
She is a fantastic writer, and her website is well worth checking out. Especially if you like her books or want to be a writer. (www.ursulakleguin.com)
There is a great interview with her posted at The Guardian. I think it is much worth reading. I especially liked this bit on talking about the meanings behind books:
This the kind of question I cannot answer. Or will not, I don’t know which. What the book says, the book says best in its own words. For me to interpret it, translate it into generalities and abstractions, seems perverse and foolish. I am not a teacher, not a philosopher, not a scholar, I am a novelist. I think in story. I follow where the story takes me. I try to understand where I am going. I try to tell that. But what the story “means”, in any language but its own, is for the reader to decide - no?