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 Copy Share Image
“This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.” — Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“MARK TWAIN Some months after invading Iraq, President George W. Bush said he had taken the war to liberate the Philippines as… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter. — David Walton Copy Share Image
“After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it… — Rene Denfeld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
“and she kissed me on the lips out of nowhere during recess one day while I was trying to read Huck Finn… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I heard 'Moon River', at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to… — Drew Holcomb Copy Share Image
With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony.… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
“Meeting Enzo changed everything. It was Mark Twain getting on a bus and sitting down next to Huck Finn. Or F. Scott… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
