C. S. Lewis Quotes

There is no story that is not true.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

The truth is not so good a story.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.

We are surrounded by story.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.

Good anecdote--bad reality.