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Them Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is,…
- I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have…
- Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally…
- From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most…
- Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft…
- A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be…
- The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while…
- When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep…
- The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air,…
- Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most…
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