Madeleine L'Engle

"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."

"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."

"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."

"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible"which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds."

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."

"Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived."

"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 alive ... and open to growth"

"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."

"It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine."

"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."

"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."

"A book comes and says, 'Write me."

"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 makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys."

"Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous."