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
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.
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.