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 another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.
A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,” answered Henry. “Correct,” said Stuart. “Those are the important things. You forgot one thing, though. Mary Bendix, what did Henry Rackmeyer forget?” “He forgot ice cream with chocolate sauce on it,” said Mary quickly.
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.
Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.