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Books Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- 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 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
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — 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
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine