Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
men thinking europe
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.
inspirational funny morning
Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
book arcs wells
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
book thinking imagination
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
reality differences needs
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.
writing doubt adjectives
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
book writing years
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
funny believe humor
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
disappointment years two
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.
cheer eye rivers
The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.
inspirational motivational atheist
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
happy-birthday time growing-up
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
sunday america issues
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.
nature men humanity
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.