Mark Twain, on books:

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

- Mark Twain.

Mark Twain, on reading:

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

- Mark Twain.

Born on this day – Mark Twain:

Mark Twain

Writer

November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

Credits:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876); The Annotated Huckleberry Finn (1884); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885); Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894); Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896); Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians and Other Unfinished Stories (1989); Extracts from Adam's Diary (1904); Eve's Diary (1906); The Gilded Age (1873); A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage (1876); The Prince and the Pauper (1881); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889); The American Claimant (1892); The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1893); Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896); A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902); A Dog's Tale (1904); King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905); A Horse's Tale (1907); The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass (1928); The Adventures of Colonel Sellers (1965); Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (2008); The Jumping Frog (1865); Pudd'nhead Wilson (1893); The Mysterious Stranger (1916); Bakers Bluejay Yarn (1986); The Stolen White Elephant (2017); The Invalid's Story (2019); The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories (1867); Eye Openers (1871); Screamers (1871); Mark Twain's Sketches (1872); Sketches New and Old (1875); The Stolen White Elephant (1882); Merry Tales (1892); The 1,000,000 Pound Bank-Note, and Other New Stories (1893); The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories (1900); The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906); The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (1916); Punch, Brothers, Punch (1989); Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (2004); The Innocents Abroad (1869); The Innocents at Home (1869); Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography; and, First Romance (1871); Roughing It (1872); A Tramp Abroad (1880); Life on the Mississippi (1883); How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897); Following the Equator (1897); English as She is Taught (1900); What is Man? and Other Essays (1906); My Debut as a Literary Person (1906); Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909); Mark Twain's Speeches (1910); Letters from the Earth (2009); Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (1925); Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (1925); Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 (1925).

Mark Twain, on writing:

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Mark Twain.