Books Quote by Easy A

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

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

— Mark Twain

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

Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I…

— Caroline Lawrence

While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters…

— Elizabeth George

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

— Tayari Jones

I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls…

— Tomi Adeyemi

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

— Libba Bray

“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

“I can assure you Ernest Hemingway was wrong when he said modern American literature began with Huckleberry Finn. It begins with Moby-Dick, the book…

— E.L. Doctorow

'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds.…

— Richard Grenell

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