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
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I… — 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
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by… — 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
