“Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. — Madeleine L'Engle Inspiration Copy Share Image
“There’s something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon’s knife.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free. — Madeleine L'Engle Humans Copy Share Image
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.” — Madeleine L'Engle Amor Copy Share Image
To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.” — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Arrogance Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Asylums Copy Share Image
“I suppose that depends on how you look at it,” Meg said. “Usually no matter what happens people think it’s my fault,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience… — Madeleine L'Engle Joy Copy Share Image
“It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh,… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy 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 Adults 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
“But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves… — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
“Somehow or other, the loving parents had swallowed one of the Tempter's hooks, and the child was given total self-indulgence, which is… — Madeleine L'Engle Caught in the middle Copy Share Image
Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit,… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
“Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story… — Madeleine L'Engle Life Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply… — Madeleine L'Engle Desperate Copy Share Image
It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence. — Madeleine L'Engle Communion Copy Share Image
Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice. — Madeleine L'Engle Choice Copy Share Image
