My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, vol. 3, Notebook 26, March 1886 --June 1887; ed. Frederick Anderson, 1979.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.