Lewis Carroll Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

• 'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Reading, Wonderland

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 1 (1865)

• I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, 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 means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Mean, Use

  Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Novels of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + Sylvie and Bruno Concluded”, p.857, e-artnow

• Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Reading, Tired

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 1 (1865)

• 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

• I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll (1955). “Symbolic Logic: Elementary”

• There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Alice In Wonderland Alice, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (1963). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.36, Collector's Library

• 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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Mean, Use

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

• 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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