Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so…

I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

— Mayer Hawthorne

People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff,…

— Mayer Hawthorne

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

— Ishmael Reed

“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire to make…

— Alice Hoffman

There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all…

— Herman Melville

“There is no decay. Each human soul is the first created inhabitant of its own Eden. We dwell in an old moss-covered mansion, and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Because the power of God does not fade over time, Dr. Hawthorne,”

— Don Hoesel

“I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.”

— Don DeLillo

“The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger.”

— Robert R. McCammon

I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene…

— Adam Ross

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

— Leslie Stephen

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to…

— Julian Barnes

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Maya Angelou