All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
E. B. WHITEAll writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
E. B. WHITEWhy did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
E. B. WHITEI see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. WHITEIf a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. WHITEThe whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
E. B. WHITEWe’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
E. B. WHITESafety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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. 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. WHITEA good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. WHITESalutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
E. B. WHITEBe obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
E. B. WHITEWriting is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. WHITETo achieve style, begin by affecting none.
E. B. WHITEAlways be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E. B. WHITEWriting is both mask and unveiling.
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