There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly,… — 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
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
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet… — 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 Copy Share Image
Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard… — 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 Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was… — 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 the bickering… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen… — 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 Copy Share Image
