Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

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

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• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

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• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

  

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• 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
  • Life
  • Book
  • Convinced