Best 6 quotes in «hawthorne quotes» category

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.

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

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 have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

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

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

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.