A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
Madeleine L'Engle
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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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.
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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
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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 and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.
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