850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

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.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.

All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I’ll go right on thinking I’m descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you’d feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn’t be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn’t make me feel I’d done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I’m descended from an ape, I feel I’ve done remarkably well.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.