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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago1. “You have to write the book that wants to be written.
And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” |
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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago2. “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to
lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” |
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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago3. “Why does anybody tell a story?
It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.” |
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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago4. “When the work takes over, then the artist is
enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.” |
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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago5. “A book comes and says, 'Write me.”
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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago6. “I think that all artists, regardless of degree
of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.” |
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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago7. “Stories are like children.
They grow in their own way. ” |
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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago8. “It's not my brain that's writing
the book, it's these hands of mine.” |
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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago9. “Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail.
If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.” |
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Re: Madeleine L'Engle's Best Writing Advice8 Years Ago10. “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. |