C-s-lewis Quote by C.S. Lewis

“The best stories, however, are living things, and as much as we may cherish the original, the true act of love comes in the…

— Anne Boyd Rioux

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost…

— Vaddey Ratner

“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of…

— Gregory Maguire

“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest…

— Milton Steinberg

“Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together a narrative that reveals…

— Mark Slouka

“And what was the truth? Simply enough: that the world in which we are born, the world in which we spend our every waking…

— Joseph Duncan

“ We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we…

— Douglas Kennedy

“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read the latest…

— Marcel Proust

“...reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Some stories simply touch us more deeply as they reach right into our hearts, settle there, and never leave.”

— Kate Fagan

“analysis of the story will sometimes undercut our antepredicative grasp of it).”

— James K.A. Smith