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
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
Write about it by day and dream about it by night.
It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.
Never hurry and never worry!
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
The best writing is rewriting.