Authors
Madeleine L'Engle
1918 – 2007
Madeleine L'Engle was an American author best known for A Wrinkle in Time, a novel that mixes science, space travel, and the power of love as a family searches the universe for a missing father. The book was rejected by more than twenty publishers before it was finally printed — and then won the Newbery Medal, one of the highest honors in children's literature. She wrote dozens of books that encouraged young readers to ask big questions about the universe.
Quotes
“You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write.”
“A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.”
“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.”