“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the… — Madeleine L'Engle Birth Copy Share Image
“It’s all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I’d never start. Better… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Ambiguity Copy Share Image
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. — Madeleine L'Engle Activity Copy Share Image
You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. — Madeleine L'Engle Frustration Copy Share Image
“Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide." 'What's that?" he asked sharply. "something of… — Madeleine L'Engle Love Copy Share Image
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
“La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.” — Madeleine L'Engle Knowledge Copy Share Image
But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta — Madeleine L'Engle Cold Copy Share Image
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. — Madeleine L'Engle Inspiration Copy Share Image
“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.” — Madeleine L'Engle Writing Copy Share Image
“Do you think things always have an explanation?” “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations… — Madeleine L'Engle Theory Copy Share Image
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're… — Madeleine L'Engle Easier Copy Share Image
Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly — Madeleine L'Engle Friends Copy Share Image
“There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises. Even… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy 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 Accepting Copy Share Image
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is… — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference. — Madeleine L'Engle Differences Copy Share Image
