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Best Book Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand…
- And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the…
- He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
- Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the…
- I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you…
- Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
- The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in…
- What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
- I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been…
- My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected…
- this is a book about something
- Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong…
- Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we…
- Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
- I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the…
- If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better…
- Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.
- If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.
- I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and…
- Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction…
- ...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of…
- What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in…
- Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These…
- I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to…
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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
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- 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