The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. WHITEThe best writing is rewriting.
E. B. WHITEAll writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
E. B. WHITELoneliness is a strange gift.
E. B. WHITEWriting is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. WHITEI don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. WHITEThe essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
E. B. WHITENo one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
E. B. WHITEEverything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. WHITEIt 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.
E. B. WHITESafety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
E. B. WHITEOh, I never look under the hood.
E. B. WHITEIt can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
E. B. WHITENever hurry and never worry!
E. B. WHITEBefore the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
E. B. WHITEA really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
E. B. WHITEA candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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