Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

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

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

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 it for children.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast