Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
E. B. WHITETrust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
E. B. WHITEReading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
E. B. WHITETo achieve style, begin by affecting none.
E. B. WHITEOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. WHITELuck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. WHITEThe essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
E. B. WHITEAll writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
E. B. WHITEAlways be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E. B. WHITEA candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
E. B. WHITEThere’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. WHITEWe’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
E. B. WHITEI’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
E. B. WHITEHang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E. B. WHITEA poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
E. B. WHITEA 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. WHITEHabitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
E. B. WHITE