Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

• Artistic temperament…sometimes seems a battleground for a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

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• Kids often don’t read the books at the right time because they think they’ve already read them.

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• Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

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• In reading we must become creators.

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• Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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• Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious.

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• We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

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• There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

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• Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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

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• It takes too much energy to be against something unless it’s really important.

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  Love make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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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.

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• Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.

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• 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.

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• That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.

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• Because you’re not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

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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.

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• 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.

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• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

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Madeleine L'Engle (29)

Birth:	29th December, 1918
Death:	6th September, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Madeleine L'Engle was 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.

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