Huckleberry finn Quote by Mark Twain

In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a…

— Mark Twain

“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

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

“Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and every American…

— George Saunders

“J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like…

— David Lodge

“I hold Huckleberry Finn real tight against my chest and start across the yard. Now we can leave this place behind anytime we want.…

— Lisa Wingate

“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

“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had…

— John Steinbeck

Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know a human…

— James Dashner

“It was too small a step, somehow, too puny a thing to settle for after having lost so much. So the courtship continued, and…

— Paul Auster

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

“Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time…

— Mark Twain