Quotes from The Expanding Universe — Madeleine L'Engle
1918–2007 United States
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A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
The Expanding Universe (1963)
I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn’t done deliberately.
The Expanding Universe (1963)
What a child doesn’t realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairly tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language in the world that cuts across all barriers of time, place, race, and culture.
The Expanding Universe (1963)