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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Mark Twain
Writing, Poet, Conscious
Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.113, eKitap Projesi

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 has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

Mark Twain
Writing, Men, Done
Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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 impossible

Mark Twain
Witty, Writing, Men

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 they got well.

Mark Twain
Writing, Blow, Brain
Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1986). “Mark Twain at his best: a comprehensive sampler : with four items in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

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. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

Mark Twain
Writing, Angel, Experts

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

Mark Twain
Love, Writing, Heart
Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.23, Univ of Wisconsin Press

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

Mark Twain
Writing, Trying, Knows

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 is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

Mark Twain
Believe, Writing, Typewriters

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

Mark Twain
Book, Writing, Rotten

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Mark Twain
Work, Writing, Years

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

Mark Twain
Funny, Writing, Humor

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

Mark Twain
Book, Writing, Needs
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

Mark Twain
Writing, Want, Satisfaction
Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Mark Twain
Writing, Bed, Lightning
Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

Mark Twain
Writing, Mean, Plain Language
Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn (1981). “The annotated Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Random House Value Pub

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 burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

Mark Twain
Letting Go, Book, Writing
Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

Mark Twain
Writing, Share, Dump

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

Mark Twain
Death, Smart, Writing
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3459, Delphi Classics

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