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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I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I did so love being a star!" "Yyouu are sstill verry yyoungg," Mrs Witch said, her voice faintly chiding. The Medium sat looking happily at the ...

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Well, then, someone just tell me how we got here!" Calvin's voice was still angry and his freckles seemed to stand out on his face. "Even traveling at the speed of light, it would take us years and years to get here." "Oh we don't travel by the speed...

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Do you think things always have an explanation? "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 e...

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I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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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 us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we wan...

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But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we ...

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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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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 enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

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My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

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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 for children.

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I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be t...

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In my dreams, I never have an age.

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Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before." "I know that. Where do you think I got my information?" "What do you know about us?" "I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it is troubled." "It is beautiful," Meg said defens...

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Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.

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A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

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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