--- title: "14 Way Quotes By E. B. White" description: "14 Way quotes by E. B. White. Plus more from E. B. White and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfa/e-b-white-1448_fancy_salutations-it-s-just-my-fancy-way-of-sa_1071061.png" --- > [Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/salutations-it-s-just-my-fancy-way-of-saying-hello-or-good-morning/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfa/e-b-white-1448_fancy_salutations-it-s-just-my-fancy-way-of-sa_1071061.png) > [Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/thurber-did-not-write-the-way-a-surgeon-operates-he-wrote-the-way-a/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f43/e-b-white-1448_art_thurber-did-not-write-the-way-a-surgeon_2960267.png) > [Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/writing-is-one-way-to-go-about-thinking-and-the-practice-and-habit-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/e-b-white-1448_drains_writing-is-one-way-to-go-about-thinking_3036805.png) > [Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/every-morning-i-awake-torn-between-a-desire-to-save-the-world-and-an/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd7/e-b-white-1448_awake_every-morning-i-awake-torn-between-a-des_171898.jpg) > [The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-circus-comes-as-close-to-being-the-world-in-microcosm-as-anything/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/e-b-white-1448_business_the-circus-comes-as-close-to-being-the-w_725436.png) > [I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-always-write-a-thing-first-and-think-about-it-afterward-which-is/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/289/e-b-white-1448_firsts_i-always-write-a-thing-first-and-think-a_2134672.png) > [I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-have-yet-to-see-a-piece-of-writing-political-or-non-political-that/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6e/e-b-white-1448_although_i-have-yet-to-see-a-piece-of-writing-pol_1051829.png) > [Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/walden-is-the-only-book-i-own-although-there-are-some-others/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a4/e-b-white-1448_book_walden-is-the-only-book-i-own-although-t_973978.jpg) > [The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-beginner-should-approach-style-warily-realizing-that-it-is/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1b/e-b-white-1448_adornment_the-beginner-should-approach-style-waril_1276481.jpg) > [A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-man-is-not-expected-to-love-his-country-lest-he-make-an-ass-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/e-b-white-1448_america_a-man-is-not-expected-to-love-his-countr_1050033.png) > [The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-sea-answers-all-questions-and-always-in-the-same-way-for-when-you/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/e-b-white-1448_agreement_the-sea-answers-all-questions-and-always_61213.jpg) > [When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/when-you-consider-that-there-are-a-thousand-ways-to-express-even-the/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65e/e-b-white-1448_care_when-you-consider-that-there-are-a-thous_2202985.png) > [Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/place-yourself-in-the-background-write-in-a-way-that-comes-naturally/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6a/e-b-white-1448_backgrounds_place-yourself-in-the-background-write-i_1598429.png) > [Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/liberals-are-like-dogs-the-liberal-holds-that-he-is-true-to-the/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/912/e-b-white-1448_attitude_liberals-are-like-dogs-the-liberal-holds_2650642.png) ## Other authors on Way ## More by E. B. White > [Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/writing-is-an-act-of-faith-not-a-trick-of-grammar/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/to-hear-in-the-short-space-of-one-week-a-scottish-terrier-booed-by-an/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-sea-answers-all-questions-and-always-in-the-same-way-for-when-you/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/new-york-blends-the-gift-of-privacy-with-the-excitement-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-terror-of-the-atom-age-is-not-the-violence-of-the-new-power-but/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/when-my-wife-s-aunt-caroline-was-in-her-nineties-she-lived-with-us/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/sailors-have-an-expression-about-the-weather-they-say-the-weather-is/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/anyone-who-writes-down-to-children-is-simply-wasting-his-time-you/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-writer-should-concern-himself-with-whatever-absorbs-his-fancy-stirs/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/every-morning-i-awake-torn-between-a-desire-to-save-the-world-and-an/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-seldom-went-to-bed-before-two-or-three-o-clock-in-the-morning-on/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/necessity-first-mothered-invention-now-invention-has-little-ones-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-bonus-is-really-one-of-the-great-give-aways-in-business/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/there-s-no-limit-to-how-complicated-things-can-get-on-account-of-one/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-critic-leaves-at-curtain-fall-to-find-in-starting-to-review-it-he/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/e-b-white/#itemlist", "name": "14 Way Quotes By E. B. White", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "E. B. 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