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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist known for his Gothic novels and romantic works. His writings often delve into themes of morality and sin, influenced by his family history and Puritan background.

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Famous Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

“Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!”

Writing Action

Book:The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

“If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.”

Ifs Men Needs Writing Trying Looks Dream Romance Strange Sitting Strange Things All Alone

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.”

Needs Writing Romance Certain Wish Felt Novel Fashion Materials Claims Assuming Entitled Latitude

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

“The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.”

Writing Firsts Ends Literature Friendship Pleasure Sensible Cash Toil Family And Friends Gratification

Book:The house of the seven gables

Source: The house of the seven gables

“Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

Writing Stills Hard Reading Easy Damn Good Writing

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.”

Writing Style Disappear Mint

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.”

Needs Writing Romance Grows Ruins Ivy

Book:The Marble Faun

Source: The Marble Faun

“No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.”

Writing Country Romance Simple Cases Mystery Land Shadow Difficulty Dear Prosperity Trials Native Broads Commonplace Daylight Antiquity Gloomy Native Land Picturesque Difficulty Of Writing

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.”

Knows Men Feels Writing May Long Wisdom Realizing Youth Long Ago Convincing

Book:The Snow-image, and Other Twice-told Tales

Source: The Snow-image, and Other Twice-told Tales