I almost forgot I was going to send you quotes! I have a whole document of my classroom quotes if you want but here are some:
“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.” (G.K. Chesterton)
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. (C.S. Lewis)
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” (C.S. Lewis)
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
― Flannery O'Connor
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard
“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”
― Arthur Miller
I don’t think I properly thanked you for sending these!!! I used all of them and I love them. Thank you!!
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