About this title: The bestselling author of such classics as A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Certain Women reflects on art and faith with the fierce intelligence and imaginative daring that have made her one of our most cherished authors. The task of the artist, as she sees it, involves listening, keeping oneself fully aware, and then responding to creation with one's own art.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harold Shaw Publishers, Wheaton, IL, USA
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780877888963ISBN:0877888965
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1998 Shaw soft cover. NOT EX LIB! Bright pages with yellow highlighting & a few bent page corners, spine is not creased, light edgewear, mild cover scuffing. Glued binding. 227 p. Wheaton Literary. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: North Point Press
Date Published: 1995-05-31
ISBN-13:9780865474871ISBN:0865474877
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. Presentation inscription on FFEP. Stains on side edge. Some dog earing remainders. Has some light edge and corner wear. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harold Shaw Publishers
Date Published: 2000-05
ISBN-13:9780877889199ISBN:0877889198
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. Sticker around spine; one on back. Cover has crease along spine and in middle of front cover. Light edgewear, pink staining along top. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Shaw Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780865474871ISBN:0865474877
Description: Very Good. Brief gift inscription on half title page and otherwise bright, tight clean and unmarked. Cover is slightly worn and spine tail and there is a small stain on back cover but not pentrating to pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 198 p. Wheaton Literary. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: North Point Press
Date Published: 1995-05-31
ISBN-13:9780865474871ISBN:0865474877
Description: Like New. Like new softcover in excellent condition, no writing, non-smoking home, clean text, binding tight, Christian business. read more
Edition: 9th Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: North Point Pr, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780865474871ISBN:0865474877
Description: Very Good. 198 Pages. Measures: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" Clean, tight copy with no writings or markings. The spine is not creased. Not an Ex-library book or Book Club Edition. Colorfully illustrated cover. Includes 12 Chapters, and a brief biography of the author. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Shaw Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780877889182ISBN:087788918X
Description: New. NEW and Unread but some copies may have slight shelf wear and/or a publisher's remainder mark! Christian family owned business for over 15 years! read more
"L'Engle is a true artist in every sense. Thoughtful and thought provoking. I highly recommend this to any Christian artist, or anyone wondering what it means to reflect God in art, whether it be labeled "secular" or "Christian". To truly grasp it all, it requires more than one reading."
"The pleasure of this book is not just L'Engle's style, which is warm and inviting. The ideas here are big. In the past, creativity may have been easily dismissed, or thought of as something I do when I have time. This book challenges me and this notion. This book, along with "Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts", answers many of the questions and struggles that I have had as an 'artist' who became a Christian.
This book is *double bonus awesome* if, besides being a writer, you are a woman or in theater. She knows a lot about both, as her husband was an actor."
"This book changed the way I view myself as a writer, and strengthened my commitment to the practice of art. In this book, L'Engle offers meditations on what it takes to create art. Unlike other writing advice books, she focuses on some of the more spiritual aspects of leading a writing life.
There are three things that really stood out to me. First, she talks about writing as obedience and about being a servant to the art. She believes all great works of art are divinely inspired, and it is our job to have a daily practice in order to hear that divine inspiration.
Second, she talks about writing for children. She says we should not dumb down anything for children. I believe she practiced this in her writing, because everything she writes is always challenging and never caters to a general readership. I think this is what makes her so respected, in my mind, the fact that she doesn't feel she needs to make anything palatable. She respects the intelligence of her readers.
Finally, she talks about finding time to write. She says that as mothers, it is difficult to find time to write, and we need to be pigheaded about it. I love that word "pigheaded".
There are so many gems in this book. I know I will be re-reading this over my lifetime."
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