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Best Writing Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
- 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…
- As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though…
- Writing is both mask and unveiling.
- All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
- 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…
- The best writing is rewriting.
- An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
- Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that…
- Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
- There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is…
- 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…
- 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.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov