850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

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.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.