In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out. — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
“He kept talking and I thought about taking my copy of Huckleberry Finn and stuffing it in his mouth so he'd shut… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social… — Robert Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like it! Yes—the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas,… — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing… — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop,… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
“Así, pues, le dije: —Ya sabes, Tom, que no sirvo ni para limpiarte los zapatos. Pero no importa: Dios todopoderoso nos ha… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“He thought of his own by-now legendary novel, American Disillusionment, that cyclone which, for years, had woven its erratic path across the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I told them this novel was an American classic, in many ways the quintessential American novel. There were other contenders: The Adventures… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“And I realize I've been betrayed by the two vices that fiction promised me I'd adore. Sal Paradise held up bottles of… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at age forty-nine using a “trial-and-error method,” scholars note, and “discovered his pliable plot as… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Hunting Down the Secular Humanists" "...What makes them so dangerous is that Secular Humanists look just like you and me. Some of… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on. Then in another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I hold Huckleberry Finn real tight against my chest and start across the yard. Now we can leave this place behind anytime… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“The Pepto?” I asked. “The Pepto,” he sighed and read the label. “Yes, the Pepto. This, yes. The candies. They’re in here.… — Chase Webster Copy Share Image
“There is no room for rosy eyed acceptance of the cultural decay around us. Highly suspect will be any Christian literary and… — Kevin Swanson Copy Share Image
“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“Winslow wants you to learn this"- he waved a few sheets of stapled pages- "and that." He pointed to the book in… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you… — Pablo Copy Share Image
“Well it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths...," I began.… — Jennifer Donnelly 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
I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That… — Keith Thibodeaux Copy Share Image
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough,… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
“I can assure you Ernest Hemingway was wrong when he said modern American literature began with Huckleberry Finn. It begins with Moby-Dick,… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
