Lewis Carroll Quotes about Writing

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

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

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

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

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

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Lewis Carroll

Writing, Ravens, Mad

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

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

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

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

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

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