The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. WHITEI don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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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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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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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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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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