Writing is both mask and unveiling.
E. B. WHITEThe best writing is rewriting.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Nationalism 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.
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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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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.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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It 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.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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