InspiringQuotes

Mark Twain Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Birthday: November 30

Death: April 21

If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.1, Univ of California Press

topic: Book, Ideas, Two, Natural Consequences

Related Authors

Authors starting with Letter

Topics starting with Letter