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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain

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

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

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. — Mark Twain

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

The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say. — Mark Twain

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. — 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

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm. — 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

Perfect grammar
persistent, continuous, sustained
is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it. — Mark Twain

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself. — Mark Twain

Eschew surplusage. — Mark Twain

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. — 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

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice! — Mark Twain

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. — Mark Twain

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect. — Mark Twain

A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp. — H.W. Brands

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

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?' — Mark Twain

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out. — Mark Twain

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it. — Mark Twain

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. — Mark Twain

God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. — Mark Twain

I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead. — 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

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes. — Mark Twain

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off. — Mark Twain

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