I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
E. B. WHITETrust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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