Writer Quotes by C.S. Lewis

15 Writer quotes by C.S. Lewis

Lewis’s 15 snippets offer a blend of moral insight and playful storytelling, showing how imagination can serve both entertainment and deeper purpose.

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“The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.”

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“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.”

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“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of…

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“You may make a writer or a scholar of him, but you'll not make anything else. You may make up your mind…

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“When one has read a book, I think there is nothing so nice as discussing it with some one else - even…

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“At College, you know, we just started automatically writing the kind of essays that got good marks and saying the kind of…

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“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it…

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“I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book.…

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“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens…

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“The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored -- treat it not like work, more as a…

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“The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading…

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“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how…

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“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called ‘children’s books’. I think…

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“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…

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“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what…

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“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could…

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“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.…

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“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well…

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“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are…

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“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the…

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