Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

All war is insane.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.