The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Mark Twain · Letter to George Bainton (October 15, 1888)

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man—the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain · Autobiography (1924), vol. I

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Mark Twain · The source reads: “I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell."” · Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), ch. 31

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Mark Twain

More Creativity Quotes

Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “Doing “good” (in an ethical sense) is in reality difficult to achieve. To me, something creative that has been done with love is to have done “good.”” · To Valentine Bulgakov, 4 November 1931.