I was encouraged by reading this compilation of quotations from C. S. Lewis on the topic of writing and writers. This collection of statements are excerpts from a variety of his previously published works, whether from his books or correspondence. Here are a few of my highlights... "Always write (and read) with the ear, not the eye. You should hear every sentence you write as if it was being read aloud or spoken. If it does not sound nice, try again." "For every thought can be expressed in a number of different ways: and style is the art of expressing a given thought in the most beautiful words and rhythms of words." "In life and art both, as it seems to me, we are always trying to catch in our net of successive moments something that is not successive." "Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you—almost apart from their meaning—a thrill like music?" "The only difference is that poetry makes use of that sort of feeling