"Writing is the easiest thing in the..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.
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“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 interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.”
“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.”
“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”
More on Writing
“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”
“I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.”
“Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.”
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“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
“Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.”