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Writer Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- 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…
- I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage…
- 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…
- In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity…
- A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
- The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
- I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer…
- Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay…
- I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by…
- In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of…
- A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be…
- It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
- I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
- A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
- A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
- Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.…
- 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,…
- Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.
- The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought…
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