Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself. — E. B. White Care Copy Share Image
Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound. — E. B. White Exercise Copy Share Image
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men. — E. B. White Bounds Copy Share Image
Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White Architect Copy Share Image
Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same. — E. B. White Funny Copy Share Image
No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring. — E. B. White Change Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature… — E. B. White Attention Copy Share Image
My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel… — E. B. White Bible Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor)… — E. B. White Desire Copy Share Image
When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under… — E. B. White Care Copy Share Image
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and… — E. B. White Agreement Copy Share Image
When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People… — E. B. White Chains Copy Share Image
Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Belief Copy Share Image
Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the… — E. B. White Books Copy Share Image
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. — E. B. White Corporate Copy Share Image
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. — E. B. White Ferris wheel Copy Share Image
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. — E. B. White Books Copy Share Image
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self. — E. B. White Communication Copy Share Image
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. — E. B. White Luck Copy Share Image
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
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