Home / Quotes / Quote by C. S. Lewis

Quote by C. S. Lewis

“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”

Quote by C. S. Lewis

Author

C. S. Lewis was a British novelist, academic, and Christian theologian. He is renowned for his fictional works, particularly The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of fantasy novels that have become a beloved classic of children's literature. Lewis also penned adult fiction, including the science fiction trilogy Out of the Silent Planet and the space trilogy. His non-fiction works, such as Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain, have had a significant impact on Christian thought and spirituality. more

You May Also Like

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”

Thinking Knows Writing Written

Author:William Faulkner

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”

Heart Together Evil Friendship Hurt Enemy News Working Together Wickedness Slander Hurt Feelings Defamation Equator Wounded Heart

Author:Mark Twain

“I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”

People Knows Done Sleep Know How Gone Mines Rivers

Author:James A. Baldwin

“How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.”

Wanted Challenges Growing Achievement Aging Growing Old Presumptuous

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.”

Spirit Growth Leadership

Book:The Power of Thinking Big

Source: The Power of Thinking Big

“She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.”

Feels Children Stills Would Be Eye Age Felt Careers Wise Feet Hair Husband Twenties Thirty Gray Far Away Her Eyes Crow Knowledgeable Clueless Gray Hair

Book:PS, I Love You: A Novel

Source: PS, I Love You: A Novel

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”

People Has Beens Simple Mankind Morality Connections Bases Tragedy Assuming Great Tragedy

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and that someone else would take care of everything. How easy life would be without having grown-up problems to worry about. And then she could grow up all over again.”

Problem Would Be Care Wanted Grows Easy Worry Growing Up Take Care Irresponsible Easy Life

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”

Sometimes Stories Rivers Stones Corners

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“People often belittle the place where they were born.”

People Born Belittle

Author:Mitch Albom