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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #4
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #7
    C.S. Lewis
    “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 between.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #8
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #9
    C.S. Lewis
    “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
    C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
    C.S. Lewis; Inspirational Christian Library

  • #13
    C.S. Lewis
    “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 books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interest, books readable and unreadable, books suitable for a child and books most emphatically not. Nothing was forbidden me. In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #15
    C.S. Lewis
    “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 like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #16
    C.S. Lewis
    “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, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #17
    C.S. Lewis
    “I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
    C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

  • #18
    C.S. Lewis
    “A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
    C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

  • #19
    C.S. Lewis
    “I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #20
    C.S. Lewis
    “Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #22
    C.S. Lewis
    “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 Rings]”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

  • #24
    C.S. Lewis
    “A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire."

    "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep.

    "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “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 forgotten story in the Magician's Book.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

  • #27
    Walt Disney Company
    “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
    Walt Disney

  • #28
    Walt Disney Company
    “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
    Walt Disney

  • #29
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #30
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #31
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    Oscar Wilde



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