“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The most important events in every age never reach the history books.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you – apart from their meaning – a thrill like music?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I don't believe your theory that "readers never notice that sort of thing." I'm sure I should.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -C.S. Lewis” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The best safeguard against bad literature is a full experience of good; just as a real and affectionate acquaintance with honest people… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christian literature comes from Christian novelists and dramatists - not from the bench of bishops getting together and trying to write plays… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1) Things we ought to do (2) Things we've… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favour of the ‘best’… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“C.S. Lewis in his book The Screwtape Letters in a series of messages from a devil named Screwtape to his nephew, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called ‘children’s books’. I think… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We may observe that the teaching of Our Lord Himself, in which there is no imperfection, is not given us in that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Having said that the unliterary reader attends to the words too little to make anything like a full use of them, I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may do much more by… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When one has read a book, I think there is nothing so nice as discussing it with some one else - even… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We do not know the play. We do not even know whether we are in Act I or Act V. We do… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think you and I ought to publish our letters (they'd be a jolly good book by the way) under the title… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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