Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

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."

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

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