Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, mor... - Madeleine L'Engle

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

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

"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."

"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."

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