Madeleine L'engle

Quotes

• “It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before brea...”
• “Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradic...”
• “If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what ma...”
• “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 aliv...”
• “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...”
• “When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.”
• “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
• “It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.”
• “Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
• “It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.”
• “Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”
• “Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
• “A book comes and says, 'Write me.”