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C. S. Lewis — Portrait after a picture by John S. Murray (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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C. S. Lewis

British writer, lay theologian, and scholar

1898–1963

151 quotes, most often on God, Christianity and Morality. Part of the Writers collection.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
- Writing
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- Art
- Writing
Don’t say it was ‘delightful’; make us say ‘delightful’ when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers ‘Please, will you do the job for me?’
- Writing
It is in their ‘good’ characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations.
A Preface to Paradise Lost
- Writing
The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, p. 90
- Writing

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