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
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.