A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the…

Madeleine L'Engle
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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. ✨ Please Welcome...Sharon Hinck. www.wherethemapends.com. October, 2007.
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I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always … ▶
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Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.) ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2012). A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition, p.63, Macmillan

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. ✨ Please Welcome...Sharon Hinck. www.wherethemapends.com. October, 2007.

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