Book Quotes by Mark Twain

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

— Mark Twain

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

— Mark Twain

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

— Mark Twain

'Classic'- A book in which people praise but do not read.

— Mark Twain

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

— Mark Twain

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

— Mark Twain

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

— Mark Twain

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

— Mark Twain

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

— Mark Twain

“On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.”

— Mark Twain

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood…

— Mark Twain

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked…

— Mark Twain

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

— Mark Twain

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which…

— Mark Twain

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Mark Twain

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he…

— Mark Twain

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things…

— Mark Twain

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only…

— Mark Twain

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get…

— Mark Twain

When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know…

— Mark Twain

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands…

— Mark Twain

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want…

— Mark Twain

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make…

— Mark Twain

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was…

— Mark Twain

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders…

— Mark Twain

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him…

— Mark Twain

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and…

— Mark Twain

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that…

— Mark Twain

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book…

— Mark Twain

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster…

— Mark Twain

It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and…

— Mark Twain

“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a…

— Mark Twain

Every person is a book, each year a chapter,

— Mark Twain

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

— Mark Twain

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

— Mark Twain

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water.

— Mark Twain

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

— Mark Twain