Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthornewas an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 July 1804
CountryUnited States of America
country writing simple
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 ivy romance
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
writing style disappear
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
fashion writing romance
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.
dream writing men
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
reading writing easy
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
wisdom writing men
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.
friendship writing family-and-friends
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.
reading writing easy
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
honesty integrity writing
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.
dreamt energy fact great matter means miles point thousands vibrating
Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
shall
And what shall we live on while I am writing it?
article dr english morality
Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
drafts heir miser pay punishment tomb
Punishment of a miser - to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb