No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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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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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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