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...
god-is-love concerned absolutes
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.
art jobs writing
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and say, "Here I am: compose me; or write me; or paint me"; and the job of the artist is to serve the work.
art icons mirrors
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.
language mankind humans
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free...
intimate share poetry-is
...to share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible...
reading character voice
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
children giving left
What can we give a child when there is nothing left?
credit talent
You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.
silence sides communion
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.
mother writing son
I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."
artist long suffering
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.
love-is golden accepting
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
views point-of-view
I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.
mean way walking-on-water
To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.