All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Writing”

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.”
“Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.”
“It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.”
“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”
“You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.”
“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”
“It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense”
“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.”

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