Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Lewis on Fiction

"One of the prime achievements in every good fiction has nothing to do with truth or philosophy...at all...Every episode, explanation, description,dialogue---ideally, every 
sentence---must be pleasurable for its own sake."
- C.S. Lewis, quoted in The Liberated Imagination by Leland Ryken

2 comments:

  1. O...C.S. Lewis is a man after my own heart. Do you think there is a younger, single version of him wandering around?

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  2. I really hope you can find him, Falyn! I always say me makes more sense than almost anyone else.

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