Books Quotes by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain compares high literature to fine wine and simple books to water, noting that everyone prefers water. He also warns that reading the newspaper can leave you misinformed, and that too much truth can spoil a story, making it feel heavy.
![“Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/83d/mark-twain-22_book_once-you-ve-put-one-of-his-henry-james-b_583187.png)
![“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/be6/mark-twain-22_books_t-he-rules-of-writing-require-that-the-p_2169332.png)
![“Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/917/mark-twain-22_absorbing_suppose-burglars-had-made-entry-into-thi_281932.jpg)
