I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.