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Stories Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- History is a story written by the finger of God.
- Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
- For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and…
- The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
- Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived…
- Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.
- The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us…
- 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…
- Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some…
- A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
- And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story…
- 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…
- Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes,…
- Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
- 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…
- For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught…
- But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom…
- Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous…
- Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and…
- It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
- Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met…
- All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning…
- The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…
- You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
More Stories Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- 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 knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe