Huck Finn Quotes

“You can't pray a lie" Huck Finn”

— Mark Twain

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

— Melvin Maddocks

“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn”

— Mark Twain

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

— David Walton

“This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.”

— Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls…

— Mark Twain

Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's Life,' was a Huck…

— Jeff Giles

“and she kissed me on the lips out of nowhere during recess one day while I was trying to read Huck Finn…

— John Green

I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and…

— Eric McCormack

I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they…

— Courtney B. Vance

Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in…

— Marshall McLuhan

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good…

— Samuel Fuller

With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony.…

— Rich Cohen

When I heard 'Moon River', at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to…

— Drew Holcomb

“Meeting Enzo changed everything. It was Mark Twain getting on a bus and sitting down next to Huck Finn. Or F. Scott…

— Chelsea Sedoti

The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows…

— Richard Dawkins

I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan…

— Azar Nafisi

“After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it…

— Rene Denfeld

“J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers,…

— David Lodge

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

— David Oshinsky

“I think of Baghdad years ago, when I met Professor Al-Rawi for the first time to discuss The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…

— Michael Pitre

“In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face,…

— George Saunders

“MARK TWAIN Some months after invading Iraq, President George W. Bush said he had taken the war to liberate the Philippines as…

— Eduardo Galeano

“There on the dune, beside the table, one of the camel boys has his arm around the other, and they sit there…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and…

— George Saunders

“Siddhartha wants liberation, Dante wants Beatrice, Frodo wants to get to Mount Doom—we all want something. Quest is elemental to the human…

— Vanessa Veselka

“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being…

— Mark Twain

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there…

— Meryl Streep

“It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst…

— Kelly J. Cogswell

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people…

— Hal Holbrook

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who…

— Michael Gurian

I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience…

— Josh Duhamel