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About Nathaniel Hawthorne
American novelist and short story writer
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known for fiction that explores history, morality, and religion, often through a reflective and uneasy lens. His work helped define the American short story and remains closely associated with themes of guilt, conscience, and the past. Across his novels and shorter fiction, he returns to questions of human nature and the moral weight of experience.
More from Nathaniel Hawthorne (113 quotes) →Other sayings from Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no…”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Life is made up of marble and mud.”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart…”Nathaniel Hawthorne
Writing: more sayings
- “The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life…”Connie Nielsen
- “I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it.…”Jason Robert Brown
- “They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebet…”Kamand Kojouri
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Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
1871
The Blithedale Romance
1999
Mosses from an Old Manse
2005
Tanglewood Tales
2007
The House of Seven Gables Readalong
2006