In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. — E. B. White Attention Copy Share Image
You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you. — E. B. White Comedy Copy Share Image
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. — E. B. White Education Copy Share Image
All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open. — E. B. White Communication Copy Share Image
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any… — E. B. White Comedy Copy Share Image
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. — E. B. White Inspirational Copy Share Image
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy. — E. B. White Gardening Copy Share Image
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. — E. B. White Comedy Copy Share Image
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays — 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
Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give… — E. B. White Attention Copy Share Image
It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front… — E. B. White Drunk 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
“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He… — E. B. White Writer Copy Share Image
From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth… — E. B. White Brain Copy Share Image
I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled… — 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
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 Age Copy Share Image
Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs;… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests,… — E. B. White Belonging Copy Share Image
We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my… — E. B. White Age Copy Share Image
A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing. — E. B. White 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 don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. — E. B. White Books Copy Share Image
