Quotable Sundays

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

~C. S. Lewis

Quotable Sundays

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon." 
~Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

Quotable Sundays

I soon realized that a sudent of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscentious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.

~Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Quotable Sundays

When you write fiction you are speaking with character and action, not about character and action.

~Flannery O'Connor, "The Nature and Aim of Fiction"