Lewis Carroll Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Men, Animal

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.10, Springer

• 'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
  'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
  'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Honesty

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

• Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Race, Average

• Why is a raven like a writing desk?

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Ravens, Mad

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865).

• Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Zest, Giving

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

  Lewis Carroll

  Art, Fall, Writing

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.152, Lewis Carroll

• "Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

  Lewis Carroll

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition: Celebrating Lewis Carroll's North East Connections”, p.72, My World

• Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Ravens, Ideas

• I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Loss, Literature

• Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Thinking, Feminist

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

• Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Ravens, Ideas

• I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Trials, Letters

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.11, Springer

• In autumn, when the leaves are brown,
  Take pen and ink, and write it down.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Autumn, Poetry

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.51, Xist Publishing

• If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Writing, Years

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

• The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

  Lewis Carroll

  Photography, Art, Writing

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.967, Race Point Pub

• I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Flower, Book

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.208, Race Point Pub

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