“ Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by.We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up int… Madeleine L'Engle
“ If we allow our "high creativity" to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in line at the super market. Or we can be lost in awe at all the people around us, their lives full of… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion w… Madeleine L'Engle
“ We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the ve… Madeleine L'Engle
“ A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos we see despite all the chaos. Madeleine L'Engle
“ A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. Madeleine L'Engle
“ 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... Madeleine L'Engle
“ Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burning bush, the bush which was bright with fire and was not consumed; but afterwards, God spoke to him i… Madeleine L'Engle
“ We're not peculiar.Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live… Madeleine L'Engle
“ One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me. Madeleine L'Engle
