6 Mark Twain Quotes on Literature

Mark Twain quotes on literature

1. Following the Equator (1897)

31. I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.

33. [A] classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

79. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR.

83. Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

114. The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.