Dry Quote by David Bianculli

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…

— Paul Theroux

Going into the past, I've always thought Mark Twain would be cool to hang out with for a little bit.

— Joe Maddon

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

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America…

— Val Kilmer

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

— Joe R. Lansdale

“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

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

— Plato

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

— John Kennedy Toole

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.”

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“Mark Twain’s words: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

— Alan Russell

A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book,…

— Paul Fussell