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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
— Mark Twain
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.
— Andy Borowitz
Use the right word, not its second cousin.
— Mark Twain
The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.
— Mark Twain
The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.
— Mark Twain
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.
— Mark Twain
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
— Mark Twain
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
— Mark Twain
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
— Mark Twain
Write what you know.
— Mark Twain
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
— Mark Twain
Eschew surplusage.
— Mark Twain
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
— Mark Twain
If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.
— Mark Twain
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
— Mark Twain
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
— Mark Twain
Which is him? The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
— Mark Twain
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
— Mark Twain
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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
— Mark Twain
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
— Mark Twain
