All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Books”

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.”
“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.”
“The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.”
“The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.”
“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”
“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
“If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.”
“If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.”
“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.”
“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.”
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”

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