Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainmentโฆis like a qualifying examination. If a fiction canโt provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.
C. S. LewisAn author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.
C. S. Lewis