Top 7 Hawthorne Quotes - Quoted Daily

We could do it, you know.

Gale Hawthorne, Knows

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

Tennessee Williams

Hawthorne, Bunch, Reverence

Tennessee Williams (1953). “A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts”, p.39, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Katniss, there is no District Twelve.

Suzanne Collins

Katniss, Twelve, Gale Hawthorne

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.303, Scholastic

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

Leslie Stephen

Delirium Tremens, Hawthorne, Kind

Sir Leslie Stephen (1875). “Hours in a Library”, p.227

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Susan Cheever

Childhood, Hawthorne, Allan Poe

Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Maya Angelou

Reading, Writing, Hawthorne

Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

Gore Vidal

United States, Purpose, Hawthorne

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

Julian Barnes

Book, Literature, Hawthorne

"Conversation: Julian Barnes, Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 8, 2011.