Madeleine LEngle Quotes (56 Quotes)



    Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit



    Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils fo the little boy's eyes contracted. When the final point of black was lost in blue he turned away from the red eyes, looked at Meg, and smiled sweetly, but the smile was not Charles Wallaces smile.







    Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.








    It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.


    IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares.

    Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

    Her hands were broad and strong the true pianist's sledgehammer hands, they had been called. They still moved to her bidding. No matter to what she likened them-turnips, carrots-they were still as nimble as ever. The notes came clear and true.

    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.

    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.

    I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, This is what I believe. Finished. What I believe is alive . . . and open to growth.

    In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

    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 a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

    To be born is to start the journey towards death.

    When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.

    The naked intellect is an extraordinary inaccurate instrument.

    Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.


    Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

    She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

    The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

    To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

    No matter how true I believe I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

    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.

    I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.

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

    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.

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

    Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

    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.

    Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

    I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

    Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

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


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