I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."
Madeleine L'EngleIf we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
Madeleine L'EngleThat's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
Madeleine L'Engleprayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.
Madeleine L'EngleThere is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life
Madeleine L'EngleAs I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.
Madeleine L'Engle