"Let there be wicked kings and beheadings,..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.
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More on Storytelling
“Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.”
“And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real”
“It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.”
More on Childhood
“When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.”
“I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.”
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.”