If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — 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
