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Write Quotes by Mark Twain
- We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
- Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are…
- Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when…
- I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly…
- Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They…
- I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
- I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.…
- Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have…
- Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
- It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for…
- No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
- That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.
- Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else…
- I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the…
- In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with…
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
- An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and…
- I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
More Write Quotes
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo