The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. WHITEPeople are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
More E. B. White Quotes
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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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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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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