All Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Madeleine L'Engle
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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.
Madeleine L'Engle
55% of people like this quote
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.
Madeleine L'Engle
53% of people like this quote
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle
52% of people like this quote
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
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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.
Madeleine L'Engle
49% of people like this quote
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
48% of people like this quote
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Madeleine L'Engle
47% of people like this quote
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Madeleine L'Engle
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Madeleine L'Engle
45% of people like this quote
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
Madeleine L'Engle
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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.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Madeleine L'Engle
44% of people like this quote
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Madeleine L'Engle
44% of people like this quote
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