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. WHITENever hurry and never worry!
E. B. WHITEWriting is both mask and unveiling.
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. WHITEI believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
E. B. WHITEI get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
E. B. WHITEThe city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
E. B. WHITESemi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E. B. WHITEPrejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. WHITEAll that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
E. B. WHITEThe best writing is rewriting.
E. B. WHITENationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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.
E. B. WHITEYou can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WHITEA schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
E. B. WHITEAll writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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