“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children…”

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.”

— C. S. Lewis

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Title: Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis
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Context

"On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952); in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 24

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Lewis, C. S.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

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