Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Englewas 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...
Madeleine L'Engle quotes about
book writing stories
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 to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.
lost
... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.
wedding hurt water
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.
differences making-a-difference matter
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
stars book reading
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
life attitude integrity
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
good-marriage very-good seems
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
christian mean men
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.
war hate angel
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished.
love-is growth lines
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
sacred messages secular
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
god mean people
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
writing world paint
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
knowledge truth-is eternal
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.