The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
This is the irrational season/ Had Mary been filled with reason/ There'd have been no room/ For the child. - Madeleine L'Engle — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
