I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable.… — 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
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign… — 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
![“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/370/mark-twain-22_allan-poe_to-me-edgar-allan-poe-s-prose-is-unreada_175729.jpg)
