'Write the book that wants to be written'

 

“Abook comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of myability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do whatit tells me and collaborate.” – Madeleine L’Engle

A native of New York City, L’Englewas born this date in 1918 and wrote the Newbery Medal-winning AWrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, the NationalBook Award-winning A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and AnAcceptable Time. 
She was a writer whose worksreflected both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science –not a “usual” combination, but one that she had no issue with combining.  "Science and religion are not at odds witheach other," she said.  "They can be andshould be complimentary."
Although she wrote her first storyat age 5, she didn’t write AWrinkle In Time – her first novel – until age 42.  The book was voted by  Library Journal readers as the Number 2children’s book of all time (behind Charlotte’sWeb).   Rejected more than 30 times before its acceptance Wrinkle opened the writing floodgates for her and ultimately she authored dozens of books for children and adults.  She died in 2007.    “You have to write the book thatwants to be written,” she said. “And if the book will be too difficult forgrown-ups, then you simply write it for children.”