An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
E. B. WHITE
Oh, I never look under the hood.
More E. B. White Quotes
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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