Profanity Monday (Literary Edition)

[a recurring feature incorporating slightly naughty but estimably relevant quotes of a probably inapproriate nature]

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

--Nathaniel Hawthorne

Funny; easy reading is not something i ever associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Of course, this is the same man who said "The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash." And also: "A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats." So. Um. Moving right along--