To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.


Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868 (ed. Univ of California Press, 1990) - ISBN: 9780520906075

Mark Twain Quotes

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a...

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a...

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a...

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a...