Hawthorne Quotes

Hawthorne Quote of the day

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

We could do it, you know.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

Katniss, there is no District Twelve.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

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

Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.

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

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.

Moonlight is sculpture

Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age.

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered.""What! How long has it been?""Five minutes. I got bored.

It is good to know one's enemy.It is better to know one's self.

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

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

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

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