I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
Because you’re not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
A book comes and says, ‘Write me.’ My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. Madeleine L'Engle Read Quote
