Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
E. B. WHITENever hurry and never worry!
More E. B. White Quotes
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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