More quotes by Mark Twain

"The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible."
"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"