Bogs Quote by E. B. White

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

— E. B. White

“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was…

— E. B. White

The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering…

— E. B. White

New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual…

— E. B. White

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed…

— E. B. White

When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we…

— E. B. White

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human…

— E. B. White

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

— E. B. White

A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to…

— E. B. White

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan…

— E. B. White

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen…

— E. B. White

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

— E. B. White