Writing is both mask and unveiling.
E. B. WHITEChildren are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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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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The 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.
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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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