Occupation: Writer Birth: November 29, 1918 Death: September 6, 2007
Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "Howe….
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference betwee….
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a ….
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of ….
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff….
My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens w….
Experiment is the mother of knowledge..
Love is the one surprise..
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel..
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised..
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is ….
It was not an end, it was a beginging.
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest….
To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable..
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed ….
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look ….
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why h….
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. The….
If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us wh….
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have..
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we….