Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

About Madeleine L'Engle:

Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science.
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Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

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I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you ...

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In reading we must become creators.

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There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limi...

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Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is...

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But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing ho...

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Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. ...

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Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

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Yes,I believe that they do.But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.But you see,Meg,just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist." "I like to understand thing...

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It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

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A book comes and says, 'Write me.

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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

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We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

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Meg’s eyes were too bright. “I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.

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The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

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Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

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Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds.

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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

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Author Bio

  • NameMadeleine L'Engle
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornNovember 29, 1918
  • DiedSeptember 6, 2007
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist; Children's Writer
  • AwardsMargaret Edwards Award; National Humanities Medal; Newbery Medal