Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. WHITE
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
More E. B. White Quotes
-
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. WHITE -
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
E. B. WHITE -
-
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
E. B. WHITE -
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
E. B. WHITE -
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
E. B. WHITE -
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
E. B. WHITE -
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
E. B. WHITE -
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
E. B. WHITE -
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
E. B. WHITE -
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. WHITE -
When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
E. B. WHITE -
“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. WHITE -
Writing is both mask and unveiling.
E. B. WHITE -
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
E. B. WHITE -
In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
E. B. WHITE