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
A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise… — E. B. White 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
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped… — E. B. White 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 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
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.… — 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
