Huckleberry Finn’s voice (Berry)
January 31st, 2008 | Published in Writing, Books & Reading, Quotes, Literature
[Huck’s voice] is not Mark Twain’s voice. It is the voice, we can only say, of a great genius named Huckleberry Finn, who inhabited a somewhat lesser genius named Mark Twain, who inhabited a frustrated businessman named Samuel Clemens.
–Wendell Berry, “Writer and Region” in What Are People For? (1990), p. 73.