Always Quote by Joe Maddon

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

— Joe R. Lansdale

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as…

— Willa Cather

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

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

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 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

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

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain",…

— George Washington

Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people…

— Val Kilmer

Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

— Scott McClanahan

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

The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and…

— Hal Holbrook