My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water. — 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
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — 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
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. — 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
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. — 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
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
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands… — 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
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — 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
“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that… — 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
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
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“SO endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. — 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
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
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