Books Quote by John R. Erickson

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

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

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start,…

— John Grisham

Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something…

— John Grisham

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you…

— Richard Louv

“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

“It’s not the story-line that makes for good reading…but the storyteller. I believe Mark Twain could have filled out a credit application and made…

— Rob Wood

“person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —MARK TWAIN”

— Hal Elrod

“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

“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain”

— Gerd Gigerenzer

I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was…

— John Gimlette

I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed…

— Kevin Keck