I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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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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