In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid.
Madeleine L'Engle
Related I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.' AMITY GAIGE The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christian... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christian... H.L. MENCKEN I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not
only because I see it, but becaus... GERALD STANLEY LEE I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus... C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus... C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus... C. S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but becau... C.S. LEWIS It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly... SHELDON VANAUKEN This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on oth... C.S. LEWIS I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei... LARRY NORMAN The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. Bu... SHELDON VANAUKEN There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still hone... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, w... POPE FRANCIS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. GARY NORTH You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, be... ALAN DERSHOWITZ If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Je... MEIR SOLOVEICHIK Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER Christ is our Friend; He is also the Righteous King. God is our Father; He is also the Sovereign Lor... CRISS JAMI I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacr... BRUNO DUMONT Mormonism is not historic Christianity. When people say, 'Well, Mormons and Christians all belie... ROBERT JEFFRESS Those who say Islam is a warlike religion
must ask if Christianity has been as well. WENDELL BERRY PAGANS LITERACY MOCK THE FATE CHRISTIANS IN THE CHRISTIANITY OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH. MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity ha... JOHN BAILLIE Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting N... JUDY BLUME For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They ... DINESH D'SOUZA We don't compete, we only complete and complement; for in Christianity, the prize is not for the fir... KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Feast of Philip & James, Apostles Recently, some Christians have recognized the existing state of ... KOKICHI KUROSAKI It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her LUCRETIA MOTT It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her. LUCRETIA MOTT There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well SUNDAY ADELAJA In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, o... GEDDES MACGREGOR Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the pri... JOHN JAY CHAPMAN In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approva... CRISS JAMI We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory o... DAN BROWN Christians have had such a great opportunity to make the world a better more peaceful place but I wo... KEN O. ELDIB As lightly toned by reality as the women on 'Sex and the City,' the bold, soigne characters ... STACEY D'ERASMO I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman,... LISA MCMANN Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church's ranks for real peop... FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN The danger is not for the ecology alone, but for the local culture as well because the sex tourism c... SAMIR ACHARYA Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure ... VIRCHAND GANDHI Just as a flower is made only of non-flower elements, Buddhism is made only of non-Buddhist elements... THICH NHAT HANH Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may thin... PEACE PILGRIM Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And
when you live it people may thin... PILGRIMS Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da... WOODY ALLEN Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, no... DAVID JOSIAH BREWER This is not an uncommon impression and one finds it sometimes among Jews as well as Christians--that... RABBI BOKSER Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Chri... WILLIAM WILBERFORCE true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a d... WILLIAM WILBERFORCE No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other. AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows t... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS In Christianity, the body is as the content. KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testamen... CHRISTINA ENGELA The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b... LIONEL BLUE early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettabl... THOMAS C. ODEN Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what rea... WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR. Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what rea... WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither cre... JOSIAH STRONG I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking... BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say th... ALBERT CAMUS If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that... ALBERT CAMUS The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are peopl... C.S. LEWIS Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well. MURRAY WALKER I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protes... JUAN WILLIAMS Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a r... J. C. RYLE There have always been two kinds of Christianity -- man's and Christ's. Does anyone today remember h... JOY DAVIDMAN Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men fr... PATRICK BUCHANAN Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We ... WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to... C.S. LEWIS Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death.... PATRICIA HEATON Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims... KAREN ARMSTRONG Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If... GREGORY A. BOYD Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, yo... ROMAN PAYNE It is remarkable that so many people are willing [to] believe that their Christianity has something ... PASTOR BOB HALLSTROM As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. DONALD TRUMP History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well. STACY SCHIFF In the American South, where I live, Christianity is very much about the Bible. Most Christians come... BART D. EHRMAN God is not pleased with these mashed potato Christians. You know the kind that are found in the T.V.... LAMAR THOMPSON It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so mu... JOSEPH BUTLER Our legal system, our politics, our ethics, even our disagreements -- life today is shaped largely b... IRV LIPPMAN For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as bein... JOSH MCDOWELL As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the... G.K. CHESTERTON It?s primarily because the board has managed their money well. But it is also because they are only ... JOE BURNS Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with ... KARL BARTH It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the worl... ALLEN R. HUNT When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future... WILLIAM GIBSON Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a clas... MITCHELL ZUCKOFF I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Isla... ANNIE BESANT What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mo... CHRISTINA ENGELA What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mo... CHRISTINA ENGELA ...the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles conti... CRAIG KEENER
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Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... MADELEINE L'ENGLE A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Some things have to be believed to be seen. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. MADELEINE L'ENGLE I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, bu... MADELEINE L'ENGLE A great ring of pure & endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart And breaks apart... MADELEINE L'ENGLE If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of fre... MADELEINE L'ENGLE In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. MADELEINE L'ENGLE A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created,... MADELEINE L'ENGLE We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. MADELEINE L'ENGLE A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable.... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t... MADELEINE L'ENGLE No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. MADELEINE L'ENGLE But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I love, therefore I am vulnerable. MADELEINE L'ENGLE We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always... MADELEINE L'ENGLE People are more than just the way they look. MADELEINE L'ENGLE It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every... MADELEINE L'ENGLE We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel th... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition. MADELEINE L'ENGLE The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I do not know everything; still many things I understand. MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. MADELEINE L'ENGLE The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. MADELEINE L'ENGLE We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Nam... MADELEINE L'ENGLE We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set in... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my d... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are... MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civili... MADELEINE L'ENGLE the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let g... MADELEINE L'ENGLE The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's alw... MADELEINE L'ENGLE God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent. MADELEINE L'ENGLE One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art... MADELEINE L'ENGLE There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops o... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm gro... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. MADELEINE L'ENGLE An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate muc... MADELEINE L'ENGLE A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. MADELEINE L'ENGLE In my dreams, I never have an age. MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. MADELEINE L'ENGLE The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" MADELEINE L'ENGLE Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you se... MADELEINE L'ENGLE For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr... MADELEINE L'ENGLE If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. MADELEINE L'ENGLE The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a... MADELEINE L'ENGLE It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won... MADELEINE L'ENGLE The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de... MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be fre... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Wha... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I... MADELEINE L'ENGLE when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared. MADELEINE L'ENGLE There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You see, though we travel together, we travel alone. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Experiment is the mother of knowledge. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Believing takes practice. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe... MADELEINE L'ENGLE At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brig... MADELEINE L'ENGLE A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars... MADELINE L'ENGLE I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel ... PAUL ENGLE It's a sight I plan to remember, this spontaneous unity when faced with disaster. MARGARITA ENGLE Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting ... PAUL ENGLE Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the pa... PAUL ENGLE Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tou... PAUL ENGLE I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Colum... PAUL ENGLE The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was set... PAUL ENGLE Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a l... PAUL ENGLE I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills arou... PAUL ENGLE Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But th... PAUL ENGLE A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the origi... PAUL ENGLE Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; ... PAUL ENGLE Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20... PAUL ENGLE We just wanted to say thank you very much. Above all else, we had so much fun. I'm glad (so many peo... BRITTANY ENGLE I know going into the locker room I was so frustrated. I struggled shooting against Walpole and I co... BRITTANY ENGLE This is our last chance. There's a sense of urgency. BRITTANY ENGLE Our chemistry is definitely the key. It seems we're on the same page. We pass well because we've pla... BRITTANY ENGLE But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never fo... PAUL ENGLE All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfwa... PAUL ENGLE The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of... PAUL ENGLE Seventh grade. Eleven years old. A bookworm-misfit with long black braids, childish white socks, poi... MARGARITA ENGLE Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid. PAUL ENGLE Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded ... PAUL ENGLE Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look a... PAUL ENGLE I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys. 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LOUIS L'AMOUR Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in... LOUIS L'AMOUR Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area t... LOUIS L'AMOUR I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from h... LOUIS L'AMOUR Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy. LOUIS L'AMOUR A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows sh... LOUIS L'AMOUR There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. LOUIS L'AMOUR The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out. LOUIS L'AMOUR Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about t... LOUIS L'AMOUR A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. LOUIS L'AMOUR Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king. LOUIS L'AMOUR Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?" "Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticip... LOUIS L'AMOUR Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on LOUIS L'AMOUR Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves. LOUIS L'AMOUR To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd. LOUIS L'AMOUR All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a... LOUIS L'AMOUR Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what ... LOUIS L'AMOUR You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, an... L'PONI BALDWIN He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his an... L'PONI BALDWIN I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Plato... L'PONI BALDWIN He couldn't take his eye off that dragon There was something odd about the swaying of his tail<... L'PONI BALDWIN When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorate... L'PONI BALDWIN La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what ... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of pe... MADELEINE PEYROUX Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become ... MADELEINE PEYROUX Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their ar... MADELEINE PEYROUX I love playing to people and seeing them react. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But i... MADELEINE PEYROUX My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th... MADELEINE PEYROUX Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. MADELEINE PEYROUX My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. MADELEINE PEYROUX Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating. MADELEINE PEYROUX I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary j... MADELEINE PEYROUX I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk ... MADELEINE PEYROUX You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of ... MADELEINE PEYROUX No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a... MADELEINE PEYROUX It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status. MADELEINE PEYROUX A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, w... MADELEINE L'ENGLE With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu... MADELEINE L'ENGLE That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is the ability to choose which makes us human. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,... MADELEINE L'ENGLE