We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and… — 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
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the… — 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
I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“By having a great many friends I do not prove that I have a wide appreciation of human excellence. You might as… — C. S. LEWIS Copy Share Image
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share