Lewis Carroll on Writing
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Lewis Carroll, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Lewis Carroll, entry #81663: "The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters."
Attributed to Lewis Carroll, entry #227116: "Poems by Lewis Carroll at PoetryFoundation.org"
4 Quotes by Lewis Carroll on Writing
"The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters."
"Poems by Lewis Carroll at PoetryFoundation.org"
"Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly."
"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."