Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing

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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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of ones family and friends and lastly, the solid cash. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow

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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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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

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