When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened… — Madeleine L'Engle Brighter Copy Share Image
“I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!” — Madeleine L'Engle Dark Copy Share Image
For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light,… — Madeleine L'Engle Barefoot Copy Share Image
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. — Madeleine L'Engle Hope Copy Share Image
“Oh, my darling, you’re not dumb,” her father answered. “You’re like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace.… — Madeleine L'Engle Parenting Copy Share Image
“The truly great books are flawed: The Brothers Karamazov is unwieldy in structure; a present-day editor would probably want to cut the… — Madeleine L'Engle Books 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
“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
“I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Creation Copy Share Image
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
“—What would I be singing, Vicky wondered,—if I sang out my moods?” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any… — Madeleine L'Engle Giving Copy Share Image
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do… — Madeleine L'Engle Irrationality Copy Share Image
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once. — Madeleine L'Engle Great scientist Copy Share Image
“Are you fighting the Black Thing?” Meg asked. “Oh, yes,” Aunt Beast replied. “In doing that, we can never relax. We are… — Madeleine L'Engle Animals Copy Share Image
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. — Madeleine L'Engle Conscious Copy Share Image
“I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“But of course we can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be. — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
“I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and… — Madeleine L'Engle Beauty Copy Share Image
“How did all this happen? Isn't it wonderful? I feel as though I were just be ing born! I'm not alone anymore!… — Madeleine L'Engle Book-1 Copy Share Image
