Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.
- A Tramp Abroad

Illustration by Dan Beard for "Travelling with a Reformer"
COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE, Dec. 16, 1893.
From the Dave Thomson collection

The best collection of Twain's quotes on writers and writing, is Mark Dawidziak's collection MARK MY WORDS. Available from amazon.com

Recommended resource: HOW TO WRITE ABOUT MARK TWAIN by R. Kent Rasmussen. Available from amazon.com

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