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Write Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- Write about it by day and dream about it by night.
- There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to…
- Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,…
- Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if…
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
- Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
- All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather…
- I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
- Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a…
- Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
- Don't write about Man; write about a man.
- 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…
- An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
- When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
- No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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