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‘Sincere’, for example, is a word we should avoid. The real question is what makes a thing sound sincere or not.
— C.S. Lewis, “On Criticism”
(Venus #19 cover by Bill Everett, Apr 1952, via The Horrors of It All)
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I will try, but you must not believe all that authors tell you about how they wrote their books. This is not because they mean to tell lies. It is because a man writing a story is too excited about the story itself to sit back and notice how he is doing it. In fact, that might stop the works; just as, if you start thinking about how you tie your tie, the next thing is that you find you can’t tie it.
— C.S. Lewis, excerpt from “It All Began with a Picture …” (current mood: hyper)
(picture by Space Station Nathan after Roger Hane)
