Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

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.

Madeleine L'EngleNovelist · American · 1918 – 2007
More from Madeleine L'Engle
Children QuotesWriting QuotesBook Quotes
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
  • When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. — Madeleine L'Engle
  • Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. — Madeleine L'Engle
  • I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. — Madeleine L'Engle
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026