Saturday, May 2, 2009

Quoth C.S. Lewis

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
– C.S. Lewis

From the Creative Screenwriting Weekly Newsletter

10 comments:

Jenny Jenny Flannery said...

Excellent quote.

Paul D Brazill said...

nicely, nice.

SkylersDad said...

Very good.

Gifted Typist said...

That's you Cormac Brown

Pyzahn said...

Ahh so, wise one. (I'm bowing from the waste.)

Cormac Brown said...

Secret Agent Flan, Paulie Decibels, Sky Dad,

Thank you.

Gifted,

That would be wise-enheimer.

Pyzahn,

"w-a-s-t-e?"

Coaster Punchman said...

I definitely find this to be true. I'd like to read something he's written other than the Narnia books - I never have.

Cormac Brown said...

Coaster,

I know nothing of the man, other than Anthony Hopkins portrayed him in Isaguro's "Remains of The Day," to which I used to do a bad Hannibal Lecter imitation during the trailer. The Chronicles of Narnia have been strictly regulated to my childhood and my son wants nothing to do with that series, as it is not anime.

Jenny Jenny Flannery said...

Wasn't that movie called Shadowlands?

Cormac Brown said...

Secret Agent Flan,

I sit corrected, it was "Shadowlands" and what a tragic story that was with the bone cancer that took her away.