Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or published:
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
That fashioned others.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There ain’t nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it, and I ain’t agoing to no more.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Until the Women’s Movement, it was commonplace to be told by an editor that he’d like to publish more of my poems, but he’d already published one by a woman that month ... this attitude was the rule rather than the exception, until the mid-sixties. Highest compliment was to be told, “You write like a man.””
—Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)