Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. WHITEA writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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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
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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