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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Easy reading is damn hard writing. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Other quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Goals
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. – Norbet Platt

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The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King

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Every writer I know has trouble writing. – Joseph Heller

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Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. – Jerome Stern, Making Shapely Fiction, 1991

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Here is a pen and here is a pencil, heres a typewriter, heres a stencil, heres a list of todays appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures — take them, George, theyre yours! – Ogden Nash

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I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five. – Charles Barkley

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After the striving, the fine talk, and the grandeur of dreams — all that remains is an elegance of bones. – Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com

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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether its the writer or the spy. – John le Carre

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