Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne. — David Slade Copy Share Image
Hawthorne sucks... It's a crazy place, and I'm happy that I was the weird one that got out. — Tyler, The Creator Copy Share Image
My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, "What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne?" I stared at him. He had to be… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Hawthorne ends the story this way: 'He failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living once for all in… — William Alexander Copy Share Image
“The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger.” — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze… — Chris Bachelder Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me… — Vanessa Lengies Copy Share Image
“There is no decay. Each human soul is the first created inhabitant of its own Eden. We dwell in an old moss-covered… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Summer Hawthorne was simply more trouble than she was worth. At least as far as anyone with any sense would realize. Unfortunately,… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes. — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them,… — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was… — David Markson Copy Share Image
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… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“Another reason Hawthorne set his story in the past (in lies) was 'cause he couldn't say directly all the wild things he… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
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![“There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.” quote by Anthony Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ffe/anthony-lane-33469_barns_there-is-more-suspense-more-dramatic-tor_2715453.jpg)
![“The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne [who was briefly a resident] left for reasons I'm sure make sense to you; he couldn't get enough writing done in a house full of people…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/603/christine-jennings-20527_arguing_the-biggest-names-in-the-transcendentali_2253748.jpg)
