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You have to write the book that wants to be written,

— Madeleine L'Engle

“But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

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

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

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat…

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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

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