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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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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great
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Butterflies
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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. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Writing

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion. – Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s

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Writing

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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Writing

Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

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Writing

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. – Abraham Lincoln

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Humility

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. – Marcus Aurelius

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Assumptions

I stay way from that area, and theres only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death. – Peter Steele

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Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith. – Kareena Kapoor

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