One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nig….

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhyt….

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities..

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it..

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; i….

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. W….

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important..

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world..

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel….

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy..

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature..

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined..

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with….

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe ….

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love..

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter..

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author..

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on t….

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a ….

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The ….

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends..