Quotes On Writing - A Collection of Famous Writers

Lewis Carroll

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

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

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"When you are describing, a shape, a sound, a tint; don't state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint; and learn to look at all things, with a sort of mental squint."

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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

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"I can't go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then."

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"Every adventure requires a first step."

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"I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours."

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"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

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"You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic."

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"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."

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"Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well."

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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense."

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"Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"

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"Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant."

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