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

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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People
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Death
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Writing
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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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Writing

Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Writing

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Writing

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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. – Frances Wright

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. – Samuel Johnson

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Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said, – Joseph Campbell

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