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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. -- Lloyd Alexander
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. -- Bob Newhart
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning. -- Robert Littell
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. -- Jackson Browne
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test. -- Kinky Friedman
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. -- Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. -- Val Kilmer
If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain" -- Tony Paul De Vissage
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced. -- Faith Hill
I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down. -- Kid Rock
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him. -- Dick Van Dyke
Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. -- John Grisham
Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made. -- Val Kilmer
I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot. -- Roman Coppola
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope. -- Hal Holbrook
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore. -- J. R. Moehringer
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. -- J. D. Hayworth
The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own. -- Matt Groening
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. -- Paul Theroux
My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. -- John Grisham
Mark Twain cannot be defined. -- Hal Holbrook
Mark Twain cannot be defined." -- Hal Holbrook
I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me. -- Hal Holbrook
Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is. -- Val Kilmer
Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is." -- Val Kilmer
I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. -- Ruth Rendell
If my name were Mark Twain, I'd write under the pseudonym "Samuel Clemens." -- Jarod Kintz
Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. -- Albert-László Barabási
Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. -- Albert-László Barabási
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. -- John Kennedy Toole
Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined. -- Rex Murphy
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels." -- Val Kilmer
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers." -- Lloyd Alexander
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,. -- Bill Bradley
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain] -- Gerard Way
I'm writing my next book under a pseudonym. It will be Mark Twain's best young adult romance." -- Benson Bruno
If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain? -- Ralph Ellison
As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!' -- Edward Abbey
Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself. -- Scott McClanahan
Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it. -- Stephen Schneider
Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain. -- Hal Holbrook
To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy. -- Robin Williams
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced." -- Faith Hill
I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian. -- Tina Fey
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us. -- John Updike
So I "feckup" words sometimes...I write in a colloquial style, so did Mark Twain. Seems I'm in pretty good company." -- Emma Paul
I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down." -- Kid Rock
Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything." -- Stephen King
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. -- Chuck Jones
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age." -- Chuck Jones
For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order." -- Dennis R. Miller
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain. -- Thomas A. Edison
I think it was Mark Twain who said, "Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like." -- Josh Lanyon
A book I suggest to everybody is called, "Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain. It's about Satan and his visit here. A good book. -- Richard Ramirez
I think it was Mark Twain who said, "Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like. -- Josh Lanyon
I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel. -- Dorothy Gish
...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much? Mark Twain ...that's why ..." -- John Geddes
For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies. -- Michael Patrick Hearn
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn. -- Andy Borowitz
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him." -- Dick Van Dyke
Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning. -- Robert Littell
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning." -- Robert Littell
Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love. -- Val Kilmer
Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian? -- Hendrik Hertzberg
It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson. -- Stephen Leacock
[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact. -- Hal Holbrook
Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that. -- Hal Holbrook
I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain. -- Arthur Bradford
The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college. -- Edward Abbey
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery. -- Hal Holbrook
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." -- Ernest Hemingway
People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart. -- Andy Gray
I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'. -- Dan Quayle
I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot." -- Roman Coppola
[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters. -- Willa Cather
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope." -- Hal Holbrook
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope -- Hal Holbrook
Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard. -- Val Kilmer
A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do. -- Laini Taylor
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore." -- J. R. Moehringer
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another. -- Graham Lowe
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." -- J. D. Hayworth
My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though! -- Loudon Wainwright III
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms. -- Samuel Fuller
Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand. -- George Ade
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art." -- Russell Banks
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. -- Russell Banks
The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order. -- Andrew Carnegie
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor. -- Bill Moyers
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I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain. -- Vera Nazarian
I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House. -- Bill Hicks
[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many of his own books. He would, I think, be very keen about the question of how a book would sell. -- Hal Holbrook
I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not. -- Kevin Keck
If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller. -- Val Kilmer
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today. -- Hal Holbrook
I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was just entertain. Which he does very successfully, though the humor is almost dated now. -- John Gimlette
I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain Come on Over CD. But if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores. -- Julianne Hough
LEARN FROM THE MASTERS: Mark Twain once said, "Show, don't tell." This is an incredibly important lesson for writers to remember; never get such a giant head that you feel entitled to throw around obscure phrases like "Show, don't tell." Thanks for nothing, Mr. Cryptic." -- Colin Nissan
King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer. -- Edward Abbey
Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope." -- Edward Abbey
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few." -- Debbie Macomber
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. -- Debbie Macomber
My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain. -- Madi Diaz
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We are so identified with who we think we are that it limits how we can be, determines how we live, and conditions how we react. As Mark Twain said, "It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, but what we are sure we know." -- Lama Surya Das
Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country. -- Wynton Marsalis
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.... -- Kurt Vonnegut
My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him." -- John Grisham
Hemingway is overrated,Twain is even more lost at sea,And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,Where both her whispers and her screams,Are born.Pour another glass, Beer, wine, whiskey,I don't care,So long as its wisdom is sharp,And it tells lies instead of promises. -- Dave Matthes
ALL of Mark Twain's! Just go to his quote page - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot..." -- Mark Twain
Dance like no one's watching, live every day like it's your last and love like you've never been hurt. Mark Twain" -- Mark Twain
I love to cook. Very healthy eating. ...' Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. 'Nothing,' she declares, 'that had to die.' -- Shania Twain
'I love to cook. Very healthy eating. ...' Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. 'Nothing,' she declares, 'that had to die.' -- Shania Twain
Love Mark Twain! Here is one from him:"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."Yep!Succinct! rest my case, why he is my all time favourite!" -- Mark Twain
The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment. It is as if heaven's gates had swung open and exposed the throne. (Twain on seeing the Jungfrau.)" -- Mark Twain
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. -- Mark Twain
No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show. -- Mo Rocca
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important. -- Aleksandar Hemon
I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. -- Terry Pratchett

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