"Don't say it was "delightful"; make us..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle”

“Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.”

“Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.”

“I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.”

“Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.”

“It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.”

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.”

“I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.”