Creative Quotations from . . .
Madeleine L'Engle
(1918-2007) born on Nov 28
US novelist. "She won the 1963 Newberry award for "A Wrinkle in Time.""
 
   
F
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

R
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.
A
"When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."
N
"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."
K
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""A Wrinkle in Time.""
R: "The Summer of the Great-Grandmother," Farrar, Straus & Giroux 74"
A: "A Severed Wasp," Farrar, Straus & Giroux 82"
N:
K: The New York Times



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