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

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

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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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• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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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.

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• We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.

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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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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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