"You can make anything by writing...." - Quote by C S Lewis

“When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.”

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.”

“You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.”

“I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.”

“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”

“I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.”

“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.”

“There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.”

“...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.”