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...
life beautiful children
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.
protect
Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly
dark night snoopy
It was a dark and stormy night.
forgiveness loving-life evening
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.
darkness dazzling
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
inspirational life creativity
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
oxygen breathing air
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner
art writing may
If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.
loss past understanding
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.
our-world confusion shadow
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
alive rebel knows
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.
community quality
A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
children book writing
if I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children. ...
children writing literature
To write for children at all is an act of faith.