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
laughter selfish real
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals
easter christ-on-the-cross answers
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
education asking discouraging
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
reality thinking television-commercials
Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.
business talking self
What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.
ends
It was not an end, it was a beginging
book writing order
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 books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
god-is-love concerned absolutes
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.
character artist symphony
The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.
language mankind humans
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free...
rigidity
Be aware that rigidity imprisons.
writing want needs
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.
adventure sometimes
And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
stories truth-is humans
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.