Quotes by C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

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That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life excl — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first read — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immed — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, b — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
The literary man re-reads, other men simply read. — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say. — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fif — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature