If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them --… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
