“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
E. B. WHITEAll writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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