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Madeleine L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time trilogy was important to me as a lad, though I haven’t revisited it in a long time. On the occasion of a TV movie of the first one, here’s a great interview with her.

So you’ve seen the movie?

Madeleine L’Engle: I’ve glimpsed it.

And did it meet expectations?

Oh, yes. I expected it to be bad, and it is.

What are you working on at the moment?

A book about aging: enjoy it, you might as well. And it’s not all bad. I can say what I want, and I don’t get punished for it.

Such as?

Such as I sometimes think God is a shit—and he wouldn’t be worth it otherwise. He’s much more interesting when he’s a shit. [The original was bowdlerized. This offends me much more than cuss words do — Zed.]

So to you, faith is not a comfort?

Good heavens, no. It’s a challenge: I dare you to believe in God. I dare you to think [our existence] wasn’t an accident.

Many people see faith as anti-intellectual.

Then they’re not very bright. It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.

(Via Neil Gaiman’s journal )