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.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
"This poor little one-horse town."
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
"Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day."