850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.