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
And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different;… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
