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Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Madeleine L'Engle

Hurt, Children, Growing Up

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.65, Convergent Books

During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

Madeleine L'Engle

Husband, Children, Writing

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.14, Open Road Media

When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.

Madeleine L'Engle

Religious, Art, Children

"A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Writing, Literature

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Sleep, House

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.117, Open Road Media

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Creativity, Artist

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.46, Convergent Books

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Book, Writing

Twitter post from Apr 19, 2017

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Coercion, Way

Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words.

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Book, Reading

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Teaching, Facts

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.94, Open Road Media

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Madeleine L'Engle

Success, Art, Children

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.35, Open Road Media