A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he… — 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
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed 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 do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have… — 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
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of… — 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
Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat… — 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
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — 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
