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Book Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
- My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not…
- Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness…
- Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need…
- Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books…
- Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only…
- I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had…
- The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading…
- Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special…
- Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
- I am a product [...of] endless books.
- I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were…
- The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
- We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is…
- Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age…
- An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
- You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
- Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect,…
- I was with book, as a woman is with child.
- When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of…
- A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
- No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the…
- I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
- It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in…
- I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood