American literature Quote by E.L. Doctorow

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

— Ernest Hemingway

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There…

— Hemingway, Ernest

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 Adventures of…

— Norman Lock

“The Concord public library committee deserve well of the public by their action in banishing Mark Twain’s new book, Huckleberry Finn, on the ground…

— The New York Times

“He thought of his own by-now legendary novel, American Disillusionment, that cyclone which, for years, had woven its erratic path across the flatlands of…

— Michael Chabon

“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 he went…

— Adam M. Grant

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

— David Oshinsky

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

— Mark Twain

“been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity — was…

— Herman Melville

“But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is…

— Robert Stone

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

“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and attended by…

— Michael Finkel