Mark Twain wrote somewhere that the worst winter he ever…

Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name…

— David Galenson

“I think of Baghdad years ago, when I met Professor Al-Rawi for the first time to discuss The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, his favorite…

— Michael Pitre

“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Mark Twain wrote, "The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

— Rusty Watson

“Twain wrote in 1869 that “travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Galton had explored extensively in the 1840s, as privileged young men…

— Adam Rutherford

I wrote the worst novel ever.

— Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

— Maya Angelou

“By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake…

— Neil Gaiman

“For decades afterwards, I punished myself with images of Sofia standing naked in the snow, shivering, clutching a chunk of cement that a guard…

— Helen Maryles Shankman

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

— Val Kilmer

“Never let school get in the way of your education. Mark Twain”

— Evelyn Krieger

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

— Robin Williams

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…

— Samuel Fuller

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when…

— Evan Osnos