Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all… — 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
