Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. WHITEA poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
More E. B. White Quotes
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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