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You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes yo...more

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this ...more

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Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

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The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

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It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

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In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

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The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of o...more

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In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whethe...more

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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reas...more

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I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

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You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind ...more

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You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.