"For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories..." - Quote by C S Lewis
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 essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.
More by C S Lewis
More on Storytelling
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
“Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.”
“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”
More on Writing
“Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.”
“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”
“Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.”