It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
E. B. WHITEThe main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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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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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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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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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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.
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