Cheryl Young

“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.”
― C.S. Lewis

“To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a net whereby to catch something else.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature