Narnia Books Quotes

10 quotes from 7 authors

A birthday gift in a boxed set of the Narnia novels can feel like a portal opening. Ten concise remarks—some recalling childhood wonder, others probing the allegory—give a quick taste of why talking animals and epic quests still hold sway. For richer collections, see the Fantasy Classics and Children’s Literature pages.

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'The Chronicles of Narnia' books are great.

Kevin Jonas

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I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

Tilda Swinton

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The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he…

Neil Gaiman

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Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to…

Stephen King

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“There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay…

Neil Gaiman

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“I was sad that nobody had come to my party, but happy that I had a Batman figure, and there was a…

Neil Gaiman

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“Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been…

Neil Gaiman

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“My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books…

Wendy Froud

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“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the…

Philip Pullman

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“My interview was mostly conducted by Hugo Dyson, an Oxford ‘character’, known for his wit. I always found him alarming. He was…

John Carey

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