"We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully an...










Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.
More Madeleine L'Engle quotes
"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
"In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If ...
"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.



