For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. - Dennis R. Miller
Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine. - Adam Rex
Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for . His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from crown to footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine. Mark Twain - his
But now, you are twain, you are cloven apartFlesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. - Algernon Charles Swinburne
If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain - Tony-Paul de Vissage