I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.