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I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

C. S. Lewis

Believe, Writing, Men

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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

C. S. Lewis

Believe, Writing, Light

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The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

C. S. Lewis

Writing, Mind, Moral

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

C. S. Lewis

Writing, Men, Suffering

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)

C. S. Lewis

Real, Writing, Mean

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

C. S. Lewis

Book, Writing, Kind

I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But to speak of the craft itself, I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer. Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

C. S. Lewis

Strong, Believe, Writing

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

C. S. Lewis

Girl, Writing, Boys

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.26, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

C. S. Lewis

Book, Writing, Wish

Letter to Arthur Greeves on Edmund Spenser on March 07, 1916. "The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931". Book edited by Walter Hooper, p. 170, 2004.