Average Quote by Thomas A. Edison

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

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

— Joe Maddon

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

Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

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

— Scott McClanahan

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

[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

“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

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

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