"In great literature, I become a thousand..." - Quote by C S Lewis
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
More by C S Lewis
“I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.”
“If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”
“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.”
More on Literature
“Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.”
“Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?”
“But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]”
More on Reading
“A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.”
“Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise”
“Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson”