Quote of the Day

He wrote Screwtape Letters quickly, completing one letter in just a few hours each week. In February 1941, after all thirty-one letters had been written, he sent them to The Guardian, a Church of England weekly and the only paper to which he subscribed, because its editor had already agreed to publish his essay "Dangers of National Repentance". The letters came out weekly from the beginning of May until the end of November 1941, and The Guardian, not a rich paper, paid him about $1,500 for the whole lot. Jack instructed the editor to send the money to a charity for the widows of Church of England clergymen. He had resolved, I think, even before the publication of The Pilgrim's Regress, to give to charity the money he received from the writing of religious books, and he kept to this undertaking even at times when he was short of money, as during the early years of the war.

- From Jack: A Life of CS Lewis