"C.S. Lewis was the first person to make me want to be a writer. He made me aware of the writer, that there was someone standing behind the words, that there was someone telling the story. I fell in love with the way he used parentheses — the auctorial asides that were both wise and chatty, and I rejoiced in using such brackets in my own essays and compositions through the rest of my childhood. I think, perhaps, the genius of Lewis was that he made a world that was more real to me than the one I lived in; and if authors got to write the tales of Narnia, then I wanted to be an author."

— Neil Gaiman, on C.S. Lewis

A speech I once gave: On Lewis, Tolkien and Chesterton

franisliterate:

“There must have been something else wrong with Susan,” says the young journalist, “something they didn’t tell us. Otherwise she wouldn’t have been damned like that — denied the Heaven of further up and further in. I mean, all the people she had ever cared for had gone on to their reward, in a world of magic and waterfalls and joy. And she was left behind.”

“The Problem of Susan,” Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman

This story has sort of ruined my childhood love of Narnia, but it’s so beautiful that I sat in shock after reading it.

i’m with you. i love this story so much.

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