Top 427 Quotes & Sayings by Madeleine L'Engle - Page 8

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

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