Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Writing
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
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Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
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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.
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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.
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Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
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