An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
E. B. WHITEWe should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
More E. B. White Quotes
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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