Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Romance

Quotes about: Romance

• When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Attitude, Butterfly, Iron

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels”, Gramercy

• Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Writing, Ivy, Romance

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “The Marble Faun”, p.4, Courier Corporation

• No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Country, Writing, Simple

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983). “Novels”, p.854, Library of America

• If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Writing, Men

  The Scarlet Letter "The Custom-House" (1850)

• When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fashion, Writing, Romance

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, preface.

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