Quotes About HawthoRNe

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

And I found a statement by Hawthorne which helped to explain his method: "I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents in which the spiritual mechanism of the faery legend should be combined with the characters and manners of everyday life.

Caroline said, She's terribly, terribly disruptive. So is reality, Hawthorne said.

As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.