Bishops Quote by David Galenson

“Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at age forty-nine using a “trial-and-error method,” scholars note, and “discovered his pliable plot as he went…

— Adam M. Grant

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

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…

— John Grisham

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

I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays…

— David Oshinsky

“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

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

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

— Bob Newhart

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

— Joe Maddon

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a…

— Annie Dillard

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