Writing-books Quote by Mark Twain

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ― Mark Twain, The…

— Zan Marie Steadham

“I discovered that the difference between finding the right word as opposed to accepting the almost right word was the difference between being struck…

— Dan Simmons

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and a lightening bug. Mark Twain”

— Nancy Oswald

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.

— Robert Littell

“We're like lightning and thunder, inherently different but alike enough to share the same sky.”

— Krista Ritchie

“It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Lightning doesn't strike twice.”

— Robert Galbraith

“Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Rumblings of thunder warn us lightning may occur. Crashing thunder tells us lightning has occurred.”

— Aegelis

“One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning.”

— Victor Hugo

“Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back”

— Ally Condie

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

— Camille Flammarion