C. S. Lewis Quotes

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.

When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.

An active and creative reader is a re-reader.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that after reading a decade of student stories.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.