Born on the 29th November C.S. Lewis was not only a novelist, he was also a poet, an academic, a medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and a Christian apologist. Christened Clive Staple Lewis he was born in Belfast, Ireland where as a boy, he was fascinated with anthropomorphic animals. He loved Beatrix Potter’s stories and often wrote and illustrated his own animal stories and he and his brother created the world of Boxen, which was inhabited and run by animals. His love of reading was nurtured by the fact his father’s home was filled with book and he once said that there he felt that finding a book to read was as easy as walking into a field and “finding a new blade of grass”.
With a life marked and directed by his faith or lack thereof (he would fall away from Christianity for several years before returning later in life) Lewis’ interest in mythology and the occult would shape his writing and was a prolific writer being part of the Inklings, a group of authors that included J. R. R. Tolkien, Nevill Coghill, Lord David Cecil, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and his brother Warren Lewis. The author of The Chronicles of Narnia and many other classic children’s novels here are 10 C.S. Lewis Quotes from your Childhood.
Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S Lewis passed away on the 22nd November 1963 after having suffered from ill health for a long time, he is buried at the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford.
I don’t know about you but these quotes have made me want to revisit Narnia.
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