Good Quote by Mark Twain

“Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by…

— 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

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are,…

— Michael Gurian

When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as…

— Lauren DeStefano

Ironically, we were studying 'The Scarlet Letter,' but isn't that always the way? The books you read in class always seems to have a…

— Easy A

“As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: 'Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me…

— Mark Twain

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted…

— Louisa May Alcott

“I studied Finn the way another boy might have studied history, determined to memorize his vocabulary, his movements, his clothes, what he said, what…

— Meg Rosoff

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as…

— Willa Cather

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“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