"Writing is like a 'lust,' or like..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.”

“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”

“The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.”

“Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.”

“People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”

“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.”

“If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.”

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”