Quotes by : Philip Zaleski

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.

A very small class of books have nothing in common say that each admits us to a world of its own that....

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest....

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard....

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. –....

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you....

Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence....

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing....