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
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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.
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.
Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
Use the smallest word that does the job.