E. B. White
E. B. White
Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, an accomplishment repeated in earlier surveys...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 July 1899
CountryUnited States of America
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
Loneliness is a strange gift.
Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.
When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.
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.
We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.
Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.
It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.
I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.
Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.
You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.