Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing. — Maya Angelou 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
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Brad Holland 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
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
“Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire… — Alice Hoffman 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
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
“DeBow’s Review noted with contempt. “It is a melancholy exemplification of the facility with which a philanthropist, who devotes himself exclusively to… — Brenda Wineapple Copy Share Image
“It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to… — Margaret Atwood 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
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
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
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
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There are two basic types of panicking: standing still and no saying a world, and leaping all over the place babbling anything… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Lillian was determined that her next role would be Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and assumed she only needed… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“The Past lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.” Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of Seven Gables” — Andrea Perron Copy Share Image
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