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...
thinking people meg
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.
children book writing
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 excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.
summer alive knows
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.
inspiring humility humble
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
thinking answers forget
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
time night light
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.
mother experiments
Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
believe play way
That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.
machines answers kind
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
heart men forever
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
teamwork jobs book
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.
inspirational uplifting work
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
art creativity perfect
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
art angel symphony
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.