“My, you ought to seen old Henry the Eight when he was in bloom. He WAS a blossom. He used to marry… — 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
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be… — 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
“If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” — mark twain Copy Share Image
“There are not books enough on earth to contain the record of the prophecies Indians and other unauthorized parties have made; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to… — 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
