If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. — Madeleine L'Engle Honest Copy Share Image
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. — Madeleine L'Engle Bride Copy Share Image
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends. — Madeleine L'Engle Balance Copy Share Image
“Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For… — Madeleine L'Engle Heaven 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… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. — Madeleine L'Engle Doe Copy Share Image
“It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants.” — Madeleine L'Engle Low Gravity 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… — Madeleine L'Engle Nightmares Copy Share Image
One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect,… — Madeleine L'Engle Depends Copy Share Image
“You might call IT the Boss.” Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard.… — Madeleine L'Engle Comedy Copy Share Image
“What is a self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. Picture Satan in a business suit,… — Madeleine L'Engle Business 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 Accepting Copy Share Image
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not… — Madeleine L'Engle Doe Copy Share Image
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory… — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time… — Madeleine L'Engle Being there Copy Share Image
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are. — Madeleine L'Engle Music Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful. — Madeleine L'Engle Inconvenient Copy Share Image
“If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.” — Madeleine L'Engle Peace Copy Share Image
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. — Madeleine L'Engle Drunk Copy Share Image
“But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,” — Madeleine L'Engle Want Copy Share Image
“The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true… — Madeleine L'Engle Failed Copy Share Image
“Meg’s eyes were too bright. “I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.” — Madeleine L'Engle Feelings 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… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock. — Madeleine L'Engle Broken Copy Share Image
We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love. — Madeleine L'Engle Behinds Copy Share Image
prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. — Madeleine L'Engle Consciously 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. — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.” — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. — Madeleine L'Engle Lightly 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 Darkness Copy Share Image
What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. — Madeleine L'Engle Avenues Copy Share Image
“We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things are like. It must… — Madeleine L'Engle Beast Copy Share Image
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we… — Madeleine L'Engle Braver Copy Share Image
“all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” — Madeleine L'Engle Love god Copy Share Image
“An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made… — Madeleine L'Engle Beauty Copy Share Image
