Mark Twain Quotes

66 Mark Twain quotes by 50 unique authors

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it. — Stephen Schneider
Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the… — David Bianculli
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… — Val Kilmer
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… — Graham Lowe
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
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'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some… — Lucas Neff
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… — Debbie Macomber
Mark Twain cannot be defined. — Hal Holbrook
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… — Roman Coppola
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,. — Bill Bradley
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… — Stephen Leacock
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of… — Ernest Hemingway
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… — John Grisham
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
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
Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is. — Val Kilmer
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves… — Jaron Lanier
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we… — Joyce Carol Oates
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,… — Terry Pratchett
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
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… — Paul Theroux
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. — Mark Twain

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