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Book Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every…
- When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a…
- You have to write the book that wants to be written,
- A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a…
- My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect…
- With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
- It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of…
- You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it…
- A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good…
- A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
- It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
- We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to…
- A book comes and says, 'Write me.
- When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are…
- The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of…
- I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers…
- In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become…
- If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does…
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