Century Quote by Bob Newhart

“Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi…

— Mark Twain

When I was a young child and before he had left us for the U.S., my father would give me Mark Twain novels. In…

— David Lammy

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So…

— Mark Twain

“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

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

— John Kennedy Toole

Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as…

— Anthony Doerr

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…

— John Gimlette

The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom…

— Norman Lock

“It’s not the story-line that makes for good reading…but the storyteller. I believe Mark Twain could have filled out a credit application and made…

— Rob Wood

Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people I really…

— Mark Kurlansky

“The men had two favorite modes of speech, wild exaggeration and ludicrous understatement. Ideally, both were delivered deadpan. Time and again, the accounts overflow…

— Edward Dolnick

Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.

— Joe R. Lansdale