Madeleine

“More than once in the days that followed [Eustace] attempted to write it for them on the sand. But this never succeeded. In the first place Eustace (never having read the right books) had no idea how to tell a story straight.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The scalpel is better for operations, but it is no good for anything else. Poetry confines itself more and more to what only poetry can do; but this turns out to be something which not many people want done. Nor, of course, could they receive it if they did. Modern poetry is too difficult for them. It is idle to complain; poetry so pure as this must be difficult. But neither must the poets complain if they are unread. When the art of reading poetry requires talents hardly less exalted than the art of writing it, readers cannot be much more numerous than poets. If you write a piece for the fiddle that only one performer in a hundred can play you must not expect to hear it very often performed. The musical analogy is no longer a remote one.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

“Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.”
― C.S. Lewis