Best 6 quotes in «hawthorne quotes» category

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

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.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

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

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.