Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

John McGahern

I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

Erin Morgenstern

Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared.

Who Needs Enemies

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Water for Elephants

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

M. K. Hobson

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Carl Lewis

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

Charles de Lint

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

Daniel Keys Moran

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Pat Conroy

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Ralph Peters

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Andrew Greeley

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

John Scalzi

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Lynn Abbey

I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.

Nick McDonell

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Peter De Vries

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

Clare Balding

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

Penn Jillette