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Writing Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested…
- 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…
- The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
- If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
- We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our…
- What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as…
- 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…
- Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
- 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…
- God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and…
- Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I…
- Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to…
- 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.
- Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only…
- I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
- You can make anything by writing.
- I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.
- Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
- 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…
- First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear…
- Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except…
- The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov